Hey guys,
I just worked through the process for running Microsoft's free Internet Explorer virtual machines (on linux), and it got a whole lot easier than the last time I did it!
The steps I followed are:
- Goto: http://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools, select your platfrom (in my case linux) and the Widnows OS / IE version you want.
- Dowload the self executing RAR files using wget and the provided text file:
http://virtualization.modern.ie/vhd/IEKitV1_Final/VirtualBox/Linux/IE10_Win8/IE10.Win8.For.LinuxVirtualBox.txt
dos2unix IE10.Win8.For.LinuxVirtualBox.txt
wget -i IE10.Win8.For.LinuxVirtualBox.txt
- Execute the self-extracting RAR archive by invoking the .sfx file:
chmod u+x IE10.Win8.For.LinuxVirtualBox.part1.sfx
./IE10.Win8.For.LinuxVirtualBox.part1.sfx
- You now have the extracted VirtualBox .ova file (Open VirtualBox Appicance).
Open up virtualbox, and goto File -> Import appliance, pointing to this .ova file
Anfd that's it. The above steps are for installing a Windows 8 VM with IE 10. Easy as pie!