
- #Microsoft windows explorer for mac for mac
- #Microsoft windows explorer for mac software
- #Microsoft windows explorer for mac code
- #Microsoft windows explorer for mac free
#Microsoft windows explorer for mac for mac
#Microsoft windows explorer for mac free
Microsoft offers free VM images of simplified Windows installations for the purposes of testing Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge ( download). You may or may not know this, but you do not need to get an official copy of Microsoft Windows for these virtual machines. You can use VirtualBox (free and open-source, similar to VMWare or Parallels) to create one or more virtual machines on your computer. There is also CrossBrowserTesting, browserling/ testling, which seem to have similar services although I haven't used these myself.

Both of these also support setting up a tunnel to/from your own machine so any local hostnames will work fine. You'll be able to pick a browser of choice, enter a url and use a real OS with the real browser and test and interact as much as you need. Use something like SauceLabs or BrowserStack. There's three different methods that I recommend:

In the advanced disk options select "use and existing disk" and find the VMDK file you just created.Start VMWare Fusion and create a new virtual machine.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). Mv "output.vmdk" ~/Documents/Virtual\ Machines.localized/ Open a Terminal.app on your Mac (you can find it in /Applications/Utilities) and run the following commands, replacing input.vhd and output.vmdk with the name of the VHD file you're working on and the name you want your resulting disk image to have: /Applications/Q.app/Contents/MacOS/qemu-img convert -O vmdk -f vpc "input.vhd" "output.vmdk" Select the new VDI file you've just created as the boot hard disk.Start Virtual Box and create a new virtual machine.VBoxManage modifyvdi "output.vdi" compact Mv "output.vdi" ~/Library/VirtualBox/VDI/ VBoxManage convertdd temp.bin "output.vdi" Open a Terminal.app on your Mac (you can find it in /Applications/Utilities) and run the following sequence of commands, replacing input.vhd with the name of the VHD file you're starting from and output.vdi with the name you want your final disk image to have: /Applications/Q.app/Contents/MacOS/qemu-img convert -O raw -f vpc "input.vhd" temp.bin
#Microsoft windows explorer for mac software
Download Q.app from and put it in your /Applications folder (you will need it to convert the disk images into a format VMWare/Virtual Box can use)Īt this point, the process depends on which VM software you're using.
#Microsoft windows explorer for mac code
Extract the disk images using cabextract which is available from MacPorts or as source code (Thanks to Clinton).


The instructions below include free and legal virtualisation software and Windows disk images. You will need one virtual machine for each version of IE you want to test against. On an Intel based Mac you can run Windows within a virtual machine. Update: 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 ( VirtualBox, VMWare Fusion, and Parallels).
