Comments on: Screencast: Install Internet Explorer on OSX using VirtualBox (updated X3)

By: Lui-g

Lui-g — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:34:41 +0000

…update – works fine on MacPro 4 Core OS 10.6.2 (Snow Leopard).

By: Lui-g

Lui-g — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:10:07 +0000

I’ve just installed Virtual Box 3.1.4-57640
Downloaded IE7 XP SP3
Created a new VM, pointed it to the image, and the whole system crashes!
(Grey/Black screen of apple death).

This happened twice in succession on a MacPro 8 Core OS 10.5.8.
Going to try it on a MacPro 4 Core OS 10.6.2 to see if it’s a Leopard bug.

By: win

win — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:38:42 +0000

NOTE : You are able to run windows for whole three days. But you may not install guest additions and you may not restart windows!
This solution works fine for short IE Testing, even for a long period.

After installing and running windows first time -> Just close the virtual machine window and select “save the current execution state”. So you’re able to start from this point later and haven’t to restart windows.

-> You will have to install the ethernet adapter for internet connection. Go to the AMD website and download “NDIS5 Driver for Microsoft Windows”, make an iso-image from the extracted folder and include it for a virtual drive. You are now able to install the driver via Windows Hardware-Manager.

P.s. Just install latest “Virtual Box” and the free “IE VPC file” mentioned above, extract it and select it for boot device in virtual box. You even won’t have to press F8.

By: Sunny

Sunny — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 01:45:19 +0000

Hi Jeff,

I am so happy to read this article. I really need to run IE in my mac.
I did as what you told, but I have the same problem with Emmanuel.
At step 8, after I restarted vm, IE7 requests me to activate the windows.
Do you think what is the problem?
By the way,when I installed Guest Additions, there were some warning about windows showed…
Do you think that’s why I need to activate the windows?

By: Brett

Brett — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:00:42 +0000

Um, I think I’m doing something wrong because I cannot connect to the internet and I cannot update any drivers.

By: jeff

jeff — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:49:36 +0000

@Emmanuel – Rad the big box at the very top of the article that says “UPDATE #3:…”
Some important info there.

o en español si así lo prefiere:
@Emmanuel – Leer la caja grande en la parte superior a partir de “UPDATE #3…”
Cuenta con información importante.

By: Emmanuel

Emmanuel — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:34:33 +0000

*to ask me de serial
not give me.

sorry im from a spanish country.

see ya

By: Emmanuel

Emmanuel — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:33:11 +0000

Hi, i have a problem that i dont know how to solve.
The IE7 and 8 virtual Xp running in my mac, give me the serial key to validate the xp.

Well, when i saw the video tutorial for this, look like you don’t validated the XP, or you was validated before.

What is the corret way to solve that ? search the serial key ?
any way to hack this ?

I realy hate xp and Internet explorer, because always have a problem.
Thank you

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:34:39 +0000

Activation issues for me too, wish I had scrolled down to the bottom of this page 2 hours ago – I guess it’s back down to the local internet cafe for me to test my sites in Windows.

By: tylerkb

tylerkb — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:21:21 +0000

Hmmm, more discussion of this issue here:
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=21712
Looks like the current disk images will not work without activation in VirtualBox – they’re configured specifically for Microsoft’s Virtual PC (which I believe is not available free for Mac?).

More on VPC and disk images here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2009/05/06/ie-testing-vpc-images-updated.aspx