I have Windows 7 Professional hosting Ubuntu inside VirtualBox for my development machine. To test my site, I run Internet Explorer and hit my Ubuntu box. This works great for Internet Explorer 8, the default browser on this Windows machine. I also want to run another VM with a copy of Windows XP with Internet Explorer 6 or Internet Explorer 7. Windows ISO file to use with VirtualBox. Where can I download copies of a Windows XP ISO image with Internet Explorer 6 or Internet Explorer 7 for VirtualBox? Where can I download files of old copies of Windows XP? I've looked in and these only run in /XP Mode which won't run while VirtualBox is running. If I have to run VirtualBox (can't work without Ubuntu running the site), is there any way to test Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, and Internet Explorer 8 from the same Windows 7 machine? Closed as off-topic by ♦ Oct 12 '17 at 8:16 This question appears to be off-topic. The users who voted to close gave this specific reason: • 'Questions seeking product, service, or learning material recommendations are off-topic because they become outdated quickly and attract opinion-based answers. Instead, describe your situation and the specific problem you're trying to solve. Share your research. On how to properly ask this type of question.' – Journeyman Geek If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the, please. Using a VirtualPC VHD in VirtualBox: • Create a new virtual machine • Click Next and Enter the virtual machine name and type, clicking next again. • Set memory size • On the next page ('Virtual Hard Disk') select 'Use Existing hard disk' and click the little folder icon 'Choose a virual disk file' (image below) • Browse through the filesystem to where your VHD is stored and double click it. • Carry on through creating the virtual machine until you are done. I have confirmed that this works on VirtualBox 4, I am able to download the Microsoft Windows XP image from the site you linked and run it in VirtualBox. You do get a lot of 'Found New Hardware' warnings though. Alternative: Convert VirtualPC VHD to VirtualBox VDI: Have you tried to convert the Internet Explorer test VirtualPC VHD files to the VirtualPC VDI files? That might possibly work, but I have no way to test. Windows XP is generally not available for download in ISO format from legitimate sources. All an ISO file is is a bit-for-bit image of a CD or DVD. You can make your own from most physical CD/DVDs using commonly available software including most CD/DVD authoring software. If you have a spare Windows XP CD and license, you can either use it to make an ISO and mount it in VirtualBox (or any other virtual machine software) or you can use the CD directly in the VM. However running a virtual OS merely to test the browser seems a bit like overkill. As pointed out by @Nifle, you may want to look at the answers to. @music2myear The software on the CD is Copyrighted. The license grants the licensee the right to use, but not copy, the software within certain fields of endeavor. While making a backup copy for yourself is fine, posting that copy for all and sundry to download is not. Distributing ISOs of proprietary software is legally no different from taking a book and distributing free PDFs of it: both are Copyright infringement since the right of the Copyright holder to restrict copying is being ignored. – Jun 1 '11 at 22:55 •. Closed as off-topic by ♦ Oct 12 '17 at 8:15 This question appears to be off-topic. The users who voted to close gave this specific reason: • 'Questions seeking product, service, or learning material recommendations are off-topic because they become outdated quickly and attract opinion-based answers. Instead, describe your situation and the specific problem you're trying to solve. Share your research. On how to properly ask this type of question.' – Journeyman Geek If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the, please. Petr Dvorak, thank you very much for your help and for posting this blog. I can confirm what Andy said about VirtualBox. I am also using VirtualBox Personal End User License (PEUL). It does include the Guest Additions. Unfortunately, due to the license, many companies and large enterprises might prefer to use VirtualBox Open Source Edition (OSE), which does not seem to include the Guest Additions. Sun (acquired by Oracle) does not include binaries for VirtualBox PEUL.
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