This is a modified version of the great ievms script by xdissent.
It will automatically set you up with a testing cluster of IE7, IE8, IE9 and IE10 with enabled RDP.
The VMs will run out of license after 90 days. Just re-run this script and we will reset (re-install) your VMs without additional download.
- we kicked IE6 ... really no need for that anymore!
- we brought IE7 / IE8 to WinXP and IE9 / IE10 to Win7 ** this reduces download (17 G -> 5.5 G) and diskspace (74 G -> 28.6 G)
- we introduced REFRESH=TRUE to reset the VMs
- we clean up our mess right after installing
Microsoft provides virtual machine disk images to facilitate website testing in multiple versions of IE, regardless of the host operating system.
The MS images are fully compatible with Virtualbox, thanks to the modern.IE project.
Just paste this into a terminal: curl -s https://raw.github.com/lightwerk/ievms/master/ievms.sh | bash
- VirtualBox (http://virtualbox.org)
- Curl (Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install curl) - Linux Only: unar (Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install unar) - Patience
A full ievms install will require approximately 37G:
Servo:.ievms lw$ du -ch *
10G IE10 - Win7-disk1.vmdk
724M IE6 - WinXP.ova
1.6G IE7 - WinXP-disk1.vmdk
15M IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe
1.6G IE8 - WinXP-disk1.vmdk
16M IE8-WindowsXP-x86-ENU.exe
10G IE9 - Win7-disk1.vmdk
4.7G IE9 - Win7.ova
3.4M ievms-control.iso
4.6M lsar
4.5M unar
4.1M unar1.5.zip
28G total
We do the auto-cleanup for you, so you should just keep the files in their place. That way we don't have to download anything to reset your VMs.
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Install VirtualBox (make sure command line utilities are selected and installed).
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Download and unpack ievms:
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Install IE versions 7, 8, 9 and 10.
curl -s https://raw.github.com/lightwerk/ievms/master/ievms.sh | bash -
Install specific IE versions (IE7 and IE9 only for example):
curl -s https://raw.github.com/lightwerk/ievms/master/ievms.sh | IEVMS_VERSIONS="7 9" bash -
Re-Install all your expired VMs (you will lose all stored data)
curl -s https://raw.github.com/lightwerk/ievms/master/ievms.sh | IEVMS_VERSIONS="7 9" REFRESH=TRUE bash
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Start all your VMs
curl -s https://raw.github.com/lightwerk/ievms/master/runAll.sh | bash
Each version is installed into ~/.ievms/ (or INSTALL_PATH). If the installation fails
for any reason (corrupted download, for instance), delete the appropriate ZIP/ova file
and rerun the install.
If nothing else, you can delete ~/.ievms (or INSTALL_PATH) and rerun the install.
To specify where the VMs are installed, use the INSTALL_PATH variable:
curl -s https://raw.github.com/lightwerk/ievms/master/ievms.sh | INSTALL_PATH="/Path/to/.ievms" bash
The curl command is passed any options present in the CURL_OPTS
environment variable. For example, you can set a download speed limit:
curl -s https://raw.github.com/lightwerk/ievms/master/ievms.sh | CURL_OPTS="--limit-rate 50k" bash
A snapshot is automatically taken upon install, allowing rollback to the
pristine virtual environment configuration. Anything can go wrong in
Windows and rather than having to worry about maintaining a stable VM,
you can simply revert to the clean snapshot to reset your VM to the
initial state.
Every VM is enabled with RDP. The network is configured to not pollute your network, so the VMs only get internal IPs. Just use the host to connect to RDP. The port is determined by the IE version (IE7 -> 6007, IE9 -> 6009, IE10 -> 6010).
You can change the first two digist by specifying PORT_PREFIX.
curl -s https://raw.github.com/lightwerk/ievms/master/ievms.sh | PORT_PREFIX="55" bash
- xdissent - Creator of the original ievms scripts
- modern.IE - Provider of IE VM images.
- ntpasswd - Boot disk starting point and registry editor.
- regit-config - Minimal Virtualbox kernel config reference.
- uck - Used to (re)master control ISO.
As xdissent has not given any license yet, let's just hope he will not sue us. I can therefor not provide a license at the moment.