Allows you to download/create an IE VM for Virtualbox in Linux easily.

installie.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import sys 
import optparse
import urllib
import urllib2
import os
import stat

def main():
  p = optparse.OptionParser()
  p.add_option('--browser', '-b', default='11')
  p.add_option('--system', '-s', default='7')
  p.add_option('--path', '-p', default='packages/')
  options, arguments = p.parse_args()

  #Download the config text file
  f = urllib2.urlopen('https://az412801.vo.msecnd.net/vhd/IEKitV1_Final/VirtualBox/Linux/IE'+options.browser+'_'+options.system+'/IE'+options.browser+'.'+options.system+'.For.LinuxVirtualBox.txt')
  paths = f.read().splitlines()

  #Grab all the files as specified in the config files.
  #Let's let wget handle this
  os.system('mkdir '+options.path)
  for path in paths:
    print 'Downloading '+path
    urllib.urlretrieve(path, options.path+'/'+path.split('/').pop())

  #Execute the sfx file
  sfxPath = options.path+'IE'+options.browser+'.Win'+options.system+'.For.LinuxVirtualBox.part1.sfx'
  st = os.stat(sfxPath);
  os.chmod(sfxPath, st.st_mode | stat.S_IEXEC)
  os.system('./'+sfxPath);


if __name__ == '__main__':
  main()     

chmod +x installie.py
./installie.py -b (ie version, 11, 10, 9, etc) -s (Windows version, 7 Vista, etc) -p (path to place packages)