Microsoft Edge / IE Virtual Machine

**DimPrawn** · 30 December 2015, 11:28

Looks like the full OS to me, but it expires in 90 days it says.

**zazou** · 30 December 2015, 13:14

Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post

Looks like the full OS to me, but it expires in 90 days it says.

I will look at it tonight. Will have to do until I've shelled out for the Action Pack.

**Boo** · 31 December 2015, 11:58

On VBox they're as slow as the world's slowest slow things...

Boo

**zazou** · 31 December 2015, 12:14

Originally posted by Boo View Post

On VBox they're as slow as the world's slowest slow things...

Boo

Yes, I did do my homework and can't fault Parallels for the speed.

VM Benchmarks - Parallels 10 vs. Fusion 7 vs. VirtualBox

**stek** · 1 January 2016, 16:33

Originally posted by zazou View Post

Yes, I did do my homework and can't fault Parallels for the speed.

VM Benchmarks - Parallels 10 vs. Fusion 7 vs. VirtualBox

Fusion 8 won the battle with Parallels 11 and VirtualBox tho!

VM Benchmarks: Parallels 11 vs. Fusion 8 vs. VirtualBox 5

**BHicks** · 26 January 2016, 23:46

Originally posted by zazou View Post

Has anyone tried this?

A 90 days trial, wondering if it's a full operating system as the download is 5.5GB via Parallels.

Those are indeed the real deal. MS have had similarly timebombed virtual machine images to permit IE version testing for some years now. A very useful resource to make use of.

**d000hg** · 27 January 2016, 08:11

When they expire, can you just start over with a new one or do you get one go and that's it?

If the former it could be a solution to: http://forums.contractoruk.com/techn...licensing.html - I only need to install one application on the VM so it's not a big inconvenience!

**NickFitz** · 27 January 2016, 13:24

Originally posted by d000hg View Post

When they expire, can you just start over with a new one or do you get one go and that's it?

If the former it could be a solution to: http://forums.contractoruk.com/techn...licensing.html - I only need to install one application on the VM so it's not a big inconvenience!

Yes, just start again. I usually keep the downloaded files on an external drive and copy them to the machine I'm working on to create an instance of the VM when needed, then dump it when it either expires or I don't need it any more and want the disk space back.

And I've done the thing of installing a piece of Windows software I only need short-term, or just want occasionally and don't mind reinstalling as and when. In particular, until they started including decent developer tools in IE8, the only practical way of debugging IE issues was with the free web developer "Express" version of Visual Studio. I'd usually crank up a new VM from the MS downloads for each of IE6 and 7, install VS, use them for debugging, then just throw the VMs away at the end of the project.

I've still got the pristine files for MS's IE6 VM somewhere, though hopefully I'll never need that again

Microsoft Edge / IE Virtual Machine