As noted, setting your system date before April 15th, 2015 will allow this expired image to boot.įor Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10 images once connected to the Internet you will need to activate the OS trial to give a full 90 days of use. Note #2: The currently available Windows 10/IE11 image has expired and raised as a bug with Microsoft.

Note: The Windows 10 base OS is a 64bit image.

After install you will need to activate the trial for a full 90 days use, after which you might be able to rearm the image.

Use the resulting IE11 - Win10-disk1.vmdk with VirtualBox.

$ cat .VirtualBox.zip.00 ? > .VirtualBox.zip Note: Sadly no 'IE7 with XP' image has been provided by Microsoft, which could have offered a smaller download.

Wise to keep a clean copy of each vmdk disk image once the OS usage period ends and avoid a full image re-download.

You may need/wish to update VirtualBox Guest Additions after system boot up to match that of your installed VirtualBox version.

Apply any image specific system settings as outlined for each IE/OS version combination below.

Pick your downloaded and extracted *.vmdk image.

Select Use an existing virtual hard drive file.

All images are to be run as 32bit virtual machines except for the IE11 - Win10 image which is 64bit.

Create a new Virtual Machine via Virtual Box, name as required.

Linux installation notes (tested under Ubuntu 14.04LTS/12.04LTS), assuming VirtualBox is already installed on host. IE 7/8/9/10/11 Virtual machines from Microsoft

Windows virtual box image