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Lightwerk ievms

This is a modified version of the great ievms script by xdissent.

It will automatically set you up with a testing cluster of IE7, IE8, IE9 and IE10 with enabled RDP.

The VMs will run out of license after 90 days. Just re-run this script and we will reset (re-install) your VMs without additional download.

Modifications

  • we kicked IE6 ... really no need for that anymore!
  • we brought IE7 / IE8 to WinXP and IE9 / IE10 to Win7 ** this reduces download (17 G -> 5.5 G) and diskspace (74 G -> 28.6 G)
  • we introduced REFRESH=TRUE to reset the VMs
  • we clean up our mess right after installing

Overview

Microsoft provides virtual machine disk images to facilitate website testing in multiple versions of IE, regardless of the host operating system.

The MS images are fully compatible with Virtualbox, thanks to the modern.IE project.

Click here to lend your support to ievms and make a donation at pledgie.com!

Quickstart

Just paste this into a terminal: curl -s https://raw.github.com/lightwerk/ievms/master/ievms.sh | bash

Requirements

  • VirtualBox (http://virtualbox.org)
  • Curl (Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install curl)
  • Linux Only: unar (Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install unar)
  • Patience

Disk requirements

A full ievms install will require approximately 37G:

Servo:.ievms lw$ du -ch *
 10G  IE10 - Win7-disk1.vmdk
724M  IE6 - WinXP.ova
1.6G  IE7 - WinXP-disk1.vmdk
 15M  IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe
1.6G  IE8 - WinXP-disk1.vmdk
 16M  IE8-WindowsXP-x86-ENU.exe
 10G  IE9 - Win7-disk1.vmdk
4.7G  IE9 - Win7.ova
3.4M  ievms-control.iso
4.6M  lsar
4.5M  unar
4.1M  unar1.5.zip
 28G  total

We do the auto-cleanup for you, so you should just keep the files in their place. That way we don't have to download anything to reset your VMs.

Installation

  1. Install VirtualBox (make sure command line utilities are selected and installed).

  2. Download and unpack ievms:

    • Install IE versions 7, 8, 9 and 10.

        curl -s https://raw.github.com/lightwerk/ievms/master/ievms.sh | bash

    • Install specific IE versions (IE7 and IE9 only for example):

        curl -s https://raw.github.com/lightwerk/ievms/master/ievms.sh | IEVMS_VERSIONS="7 9" bash

    • Re-Install all your expired VMs (you will lose all stored data)

        curl -s https://raw.github.com/lightwerk/ievms/master/ievms.sh | IEVMS_VERSIONS="7 9" REFRESH=TRUE bash

  3. Start all your VMs

     curl -s https://raw.github.com/lightwerk/ievms/master/runAll.sh | bash

Recovering from a failed installation

Each version is installed into ~/.ievms/ (or INSTALL_PATH). If the installation fails for any reason (corrupted download, for instance), delete the appropriate ZIP/ova file and rerun the install.

If nothing else, you can delete ~/.ievms (or INSTALL_PATH) and rerun the install.

Specifying the install path

To specify where the VMs are installed, use the INSTALL_PATH variable:

curl -s https://raw.github.com/lightwerk/ievms/master/ievms.sh | INSTALL_PATH="/Path/to/.ievms" bash

Passing additional options to curl

The curl command is passed any options present in the CURL_OPTS environment variable. For example, you can set a download speed limit:

curl -s https://raw.github.com/lightwerk/ievms/master/ievms.sh | CURL_OPTS="--limit-rate 50k" bash

Features

Clean Snapshot

A snapshot is automatically taken upon install, allowing rollback to the pristine virtual environment configuration. Anything can go wrong in Windows and rather than having to worry about maintaining a stable VM, you can simply revert to the clean snapshot to reset your VM to the initial state.

RDP

Every VM is enabled with RDP. The network is configured to not pollute your network, so the VMs only get internal IPs. Just use the host to connect to RDP. The port is determined by the IE version (IE7 -> 6007, IE9 -> 6009, IE10 -> 6010).

You can change the first two digist by specifying PORT_PREFIX.

curl -s https://raw.github.com/lightwerk/ievms/master/ievms.sh | PORT_PREFIX="55" bash

Acknowledgements

  • xdissent - Creator of the original ievms scripts
  • modern.IE - Provider of IE VM images.
  • ntpasswd - Boot disk starting point and registry editor.
  • regit-config - Minimal Virtualbox kernel config reference.
  • uck - Used to (re)master control ISO.

License

As xdissent has not given any license yet, let's just hope he will not sue us. I can therefor not provide a license at the moment.