You need to have access to a Windows XP machine, as this is where the converting will happen.ĭownload a small application to our Windows machine called Qemu. You need to have VMware Fusion installed on your Mac. More information on the subject can be found at Running The IE VPC’s on other VPC Hosts?. Mac and Linux users are out of luck for the time being. Update: Microsoft’s images are broken, and don’t work on anything except VirtualPC now. These instructions are loosely based on the ones found at Running IE6, IE7 and IE8 on your Mac. This should only need to be done every 3 or 4 months when the images expire. We’ll download the “officially sanctioned” VirtualPC images containing a time-limited version of Windows XP SP3 and Internet Explorer 6.0, and then we’ll convert these images to the kind that work with VMware Fusion (which works on Mac OS X). Although these are incredibly useful, they’ve always been hacky at best.īecause of that, we need to go the long way. By now, most front-end web developers have heard of the Standalone Internet Explorers ( Wikipedia article).
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