Microsoft Offering ready made pre-installed windows operating system to test Internet Explorer , virtual machine images are available for windows ,mac and linux virtualization solutions , for cross browser testing , so you can test your site in different operating systems .
IE versions being offered are:
- IE7 on Vista
- IE8 on Windows 7
- IE9 on Windows 7
- IE10 on Windows 8
Offered VMs that will run on:
- Windows
- OSX
- Linux
The VM software choices are specific to the OS you choose:
- Windows – Hyper-V, Virtual PC, VirtualBox & VMWare Player
- OSX- VirtualBox & VMWare Fusion
- Linux – VirtualBox
simplified
You have to just download and open vbox files with virtualbox or vmx files with vmware and you will get all pre-installed windows operating system , and you are good to go ,
there is pre-installed windows 8 virtual image if you want to test drive windows 8 🙂
How to Install virtual images :
- Download Virtual Images
- extract it somehwhere
- open vmware player or workstation
- click on file >> open
- locate ” somefile”.vmx
- it will load up virtual image component
