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Steps to get IE VM running on Mac

  • Download Windows VM with IE from this url Free Virtual Machines from IE8 to MS Edge - Microsoft Edge Development Select for the virtual machine option IE11 on win7 and for platform you have to select VirtualBox
    • Don’t close the browser tab until is completely downloaded
  • Download Virtualbox https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/6.0.4/VirtualBox-6.0.4-128413-OSX.dmg
    • This will download faster, so go ahead and install it once it is downloaded
  • When the VM finish downloading then unzip it, and double click the file with the extension .ovf assuming you already installed VirtualBox, it will open VirtualBox and it will prompt a modal with the details of the VM with an “import” button at the bottom, go ahead and click it. Once it is done double click the vm from the list that appears on a left panel inside Virtual box, you are good to go.
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