IE 7/8/9/10/11 Virtual machines from Microsoft - Linux w/VirtualBox installation notes.

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IE 7/8/9/10/11 Virtual machines from Microsoft

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Getting an error when attempting to unzip the IE10 - Win8 image:

Archive:  IE10.Win8.For.Linux.VirtualBox.zip
warning [IE10.Win8.For.Linux.VirtualBox.zip]:  2078530655 extra bytes at beginning or within zipfile
  (attempting to process anyway)
error [IE10.Win8.For.Linux.VirtualBox.zip]:  start of central directory not found;
  zipfile corrupt.
  (please check that you have transferred or created the zipfile in the
  appropriate BINARY mode and that you have compiled UnZip properly)

Has anyone been able to unzip this on OSX?

@AGresvig , it seems you have non arranged files while running cat command to merge them. 2078530655 → 1GB + 1GB (ie, you have 2 middle files put in front of the 1sf portion of the zip - .zip.001).

@magnetikonline , Thank you for sharing this. I just want to mention 2 edits that may help new comers:

• Remove untar command (ex: tar -xf "IE11 - Win7.ova" ) It is non-required step, VirtualBox can import directly the .ova archives.

• Add commandline instruction to import the archive to VirtualBox, without manual setup that brings up many problems for new virtualbox users. Example:

  VBoxManage import "IE11 - Win7.ova"
  

  Then the virtual box will be ready, and you could remove all files leaving only .ova a backup for quick restore.

@AGresvig: Apparently OSX builtin zip can't handle the file size - I got it extracted using 7zip.

Sorry if this is a dumb question but, I'm wondering why you download the Zip 'part' files, instead of a single archive? For example:
https://az412801.vo.msecnd.net/vhd/VMBuild_20141027/VirtualBox/IE11/Linux/IE11.Win7.For.Linux.VirtualBox.zip

FYI, this file is 3.5gb in size.

Thanks

@sixman9 Thanks for the question. More for reliability - easier if a single file fails - rather than 99.9% of a 3.5GB monster 😄

This is glorious, I'm literally in tears. How is this possible?

Have a nice day good sir!

'Activating images' describes what you have to do on a Windows box.

C:> slmgr /ato

What should we benighted Linux users do?

@britseye I thought that was obvious. That's activation from inside the Windows virtual machine itself. 😄

Thank you!

Guys, you helped me A LOOOT with your images. Thank you!!!

Thanks you!

Looks like XP image files have gone 404.

Yeah, files are missed for Windows 8 and 8.1 too

Same for IE10 (both windows), missing files.

can you pls upload ie*xp too? can't find it anywhere.

ie8-windows7.txt url is not valid anymore

Yep, win7 with IE11 is not available anymore - 404.

Anybody can fix it or something ?

wtf can anyone f.ing answer please?!
Jesus Christ!

Microsoft have (sadly) removed most (if not all) of these VM images from their public CDN. Repository will remain for historical purposes.
https://github.com/magnetikonline/linux-microsoft-ie-virtual-machines?tab=readme-ov-file#running-ie-891011edge-virtual-machines-from-microsoft-under-linux-via-virtualbox

Thanks @canda.

Also, let's try to keep the conversation clean.