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copied!<p><strong>Update:</strong> Microsoft now provide virtual machine images for various versions of IE that are ready to use on all of the major OS X virtualisation platforms (<a href="https://www.virtualbox.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">VirtualBox</a>, <a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/overview.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">VMWare Fusion</a>, and <a href="http://www.parallels.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Parallels</a>).</p> <p>Download the appropriate image from: <a href="https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/</a></p> <hr> <p>On an Intel based Mac you can run Windows within a virtual machine. You will need one virtual machine for each version of IE you want to test against.</p> <p>The instructions below include free and legal virtualisation software and Windows disk images.</p> <ol> <li>Download some virtual machine software. The developer disk images we're going to use are will work with either <a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">VMWare Fusion</a> or <a href="http://www.virtualbox.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Sun Virtual Box</a>. VMWare has more features but costs $80, Virtual Box on the other hand is more basic but is free for most users (see <a href="http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Licensing_FAQ" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Virtual Box licensing FAQ</a> for details).</li> <li>Download the IE developer disk images, which are free from Microsoft: <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=21EABB90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF&displaylang=en" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...</a></li> <li>Extract the disk images using <a href="http://www.cabextract.org.uk/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">cabextract</a> which is available from <a href="http://www.macports.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">MacPorts</a> or as source code (Thanks to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/6262/clinton">Clinton</a>).</li> <li>Download Q.app from <a href="http://www.kju-app.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.kju-app.org/</a> and put it in your /Applications folder (you will need it to convert the disk images into a format VMWare/Virtual Box can use)</li> </ol> <p>At this point, the process depends on which VM software you're using.</p> <p><strong>Virtual Box users</strong></p> <ol> <li><p>Open a Terminal.app on your Mac (you can find it in /Applications/Utilities) and run the following sequence of commands, replacing <em>input.vhd</em> with the name of the VHD file you're starting from and <em>output.vdi</em> with the name you want your final disk image to have:</p> <pre><code>/Applications/Q.app/Contents/MacOS/qemu-img convert -O raw -f vpc "input.vhd" temp.bin VBoxManage convertdd temp.bin "output.vdi" rm temp.bin mv "output.vdi" ~/Library/VirtualBox/VDI/ VBoxManage modifyvdi "output.vdi" compact </code></pre></li> <li>Start Virtual Box and create a new virtual machine</li> <li>Select the new VDI file you've just created as the boot hard disk</li> </ol> <p><strong>VMWare fusion users</strong></p> <ol> <li><p>Open a Terminal.app on your Mac (you can find it in /Applications/Utilities) and run the following commands, replacing <em>input.vhd</em> and <em>output.vmdk</em> with the name of the VHD file you're working on and the name you want your resulting disk image to have:</p> <pre><code>/Applications/Q.app/Contents/MacOS/qemu-img convert -O vmdk -f vpc "input.vhd" "output.vmdk" mv "output.vmdk" ~/Documents/Virtual\ Machines.localized/ </code></pre> <p>This will probably take a while (It takes around 30 minutes per disk image on my 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo MacBook w/ 2Gb RAM).</p></li> <li>Start VMWare Fusion and create a new virtual machine</li> <li>In the advanced disk options select "use and existing disk" and find the VMDK file you just created</li> </ol>

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