Comments on: HOWTO: Running IE6, IE7 and IE8 On Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10) Using VirtualBox

By: Luis

Luis — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 06:17:04 +0000

newer problem arose because of the lack of network drivers on the new images from microsoft

now I solved this before downloading and mounting the drivers into vbox however I can’t remember the exact steps, and I am wanting to do that again…

By: risdiyanto

risdiyanto — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:44:15 +0000

thx,…
btw can it work with wine?

By: Adrian Garner

Adrian Garner — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 02:27:33 +0000

When prompted, reboot the machine. If it doesn’t prompt you, go to Machine > Reboot (menu bar again).

Don’t reboot before activating the network! This will avoid the activation problem.

By: Julian

Julian — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:02:56 +0000

Thanks for your steps. They helped me a lot, although I was unable to extract the VHD files using unrar. I was able to use Wine to run the executable file and extract the VHD file.

By: miki

miki — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 07:04:27 +0000

thanks for sharing :)

By: Luis

Luis — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 02:56:09 +0000

actually when I now installed ie7 I was able to right from the get go activate my windows provided that I installed the additons and also extracted the network drivers, then everything was done through the network and I did not have to go with microsoft on the phone !!!

By: Luis

Luis — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:58:50 +0000

Yes, that thing about the Drivers step is needed, if you want to connect to the outside world which is much needed.

Also I had to call microsoft, but they did not give me further problems and just gave me the ID over the phone. This is very good and they can give it to anyone who asks.

Experience: At first I thought the activation thing was a dead end but it was not.
Also if you are looking for the password it should be inside your VPC_EULA.txt so please look for it. If after installing your Windows tries to ask for a CD or something just ignore it if you have enabled the network, that is the important part, all others are not.
Also the Additons, make sure that is the first step you do before trying anything else. It will be easy to install it only from the menu of virtualbox.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:22:31 +0000

Thanks! This worked great. The only hassle was ringing up microsoft for the activation.

By: Wannabe » Mount IE6, IE7, and IE8 on one computer

Wannabe » Mount IE6, IE7, and IE8 on one computer — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:14:29 +0000

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By: Limeni

Limeni — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 07:11:46 +0000

Im using Ubuntu too and Im into web development.

Virtualbox sucks!!! Try using VMware Player: http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
Install it and create Virtual machine with Windows XP, there you can install all browsers and programs you use. And then, you can synchronize folder in Virtual Windows XP with htdocs in Ubuntu. So when you change files in Virtual Windows they will be changed in Ubuntu too. And you can install Adobe Photoshop or any software for Windows you need. And all files can be synchronized and accessible from both Windows and Ubuntu.

And if you are using compiz :D you can put Windows on one side of cube in full screen, so you can switch them with cool desktop cube effect :)

Here is example of my desktop, look at 2:30 to see Virtual windows in action : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ-9v5WgEvk

I tried everything and this is the best solution. I use virtual Windows for Front-End (xhtml/css/js) there I can test it in all browser, and then I joust switch to Ubuntu to code PHP :)

Hope you find this useful.
Im happy to see developers moving to Linux :)