Internet Explorer Free under Ubuntu Linux with VirtualBox

written by mikhailov on March 2nd, 2009 @ 05:12 AM

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.

www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=21EABB90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF&displaylang=en

www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=28C97D22-6EB8-4A09-A7F7-F6C7A1F000B5&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.

And special present to Daniel is "Intel Pro" network adapter driver package ISO image! Just attach the file as CD-Drive image and install the Intel Pro 1000 in 2 minutes.
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  • AlexPod on 03 Mar 07:36

    Wow!!! it's unbelievably!

  • Andrew on 03 Mar 07:42

    It looks like all developers can forget winOS and move to *nix OS, except ASP.NET developers

  • Daniel on 03 Mar 17:34

    I have booted the XP SP3 IE 6 image from VirtualBox, but I can't enable the network as I do with a default XP SP2 virtual machine installed from CD. Windows asks me for a XP SP3 CD, but I don't have such CD, only SP2. Do you know where I can find some help?

  • Daniel on 03 Mar 17:40

    Forget to say: thank you for the post.

  • mikhailov on 03 Mar 19:18

    Daniel, I've created intel_drivers.ico image with Intel Pro network adapter drivers special for you :) It works for me. Please see at the bottom of the article.

  • Alex on 05 Mar 04:18

    Hello Railsgeek!

    Your blog is awesome! But there is issue with Live Chat. In Opera address box shows that page is reloading every second and mouse cursor become "busy" every second too. It is stressful for me

  • mikhailov on 05 Mar 04:19

    Thanks, Alex. I'm going to catch someone from support team of Hab.la live chat.

  • Lis on 08 Mar 09:14

    This VPC image will expire in April 2009.

  • mikhailov on 08 Mar 20:40

    It's rigth, but then VPS Image will be able to use in 3 hours per boot. So, this is more than enough for me.

  • David on 15 Mar 14:45

    Thanks for info!

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