IE VirtualBox

[mikhailov]

orinial article
My job is web application development, so I have to test my projects under most popular browsers, like Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Google Chrome.
Firefox, Opera, GoogleChrome work great under my Ubuntu Box, and the other once work under Wine.
*Internet Explorer*. It's pain to setup IE6 and IE7, because you can take a look of many bugs with render html and vml.

Just forget Wine for the purpose!
Microsoft give us FREE virtual PC images with IE6, IE7, IE8 aboard!
Don't you believe?

Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image
Brief Description
VPC Hard Disk Image for testing websites with different IE versions on Windows XP SP2, Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista
IE6-XPSP3.exe 407.3 MB
IE7-VIS1.exe 700.0 MB
IE7-VIS2.rar 700.0 MB
IE7-VIS3.rar 590.5 MB
IE7-XPSP3.exe 512.0 MB
IE8RC1-XPSP3.exe 495.8 MB

Licence: Free.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

After you have file downloaded, just unrar it and add select VHD file extracted earliert to VirtualBox. link

This link might be helpful to install last VirtualBox for VHD image file using.

[jpeddicord]

Moved to General Help. To be accepted in Tutorials & Tips, content must be original and entirely in the forum post. (And please don't paste your URL as the thread title, that's slightly annoying.)

Thanks!

[topdownjimmy]

I'm having a really difficult time getting either the XP or the Vista (with IE7) images to boot at all in VirtualBox. Windows tries to load but gives me an error about some "new hardware" being detected. If I try to boot in Safe Mode, it stalls at loading crcdisk.sys.

Anybody else encountering this problem, or know of a solution?