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IE 7/8/9/10/11 Virtual machines from Microsoft - Linux w/VirtualBox installation notes.
@sanex3339
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Have a nice day good sir!

@britseye
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britseye commented May 3, 2016

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

C:> slmgr /ato

What should we benighted Linux users do?

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magnetikonline commented May 3, 2016

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

@jayarc
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jayarc commented May 4, 2016

Thank you!

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

@Robban1980
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Thanks you!

@pepez
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pepez commented Feb 3, 2018

Looks like XP image files have gone 404.

@greggy
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greggy commented Feb 4, 2018

Yeah, files are missed for Windows 8 and 8.1 too

@slumbering
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Same for IE10 (both windows), missing files.

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

@robomotic
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ie8-windows7.txt url is not valid anymore

@elvisef
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elvisef commented Dec 27, 2023

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

Anybody can fix it or something ?

@03stevensmi
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wtf can anyone f.ing answer please?!
Jesus Christ!

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canda commented Mar 14, 2024

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

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Thanks @canda.

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

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