Comments on: Walkthrough: Setup Multiple IE Virtual Machines On A Mac

By: Not giving money to Microsoft « High Altitude Hacking

Not giving money to Microsoft « High Altitude Hacking — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:39:14 +0000

[...] out the idea of using some images Microsoft makes available with different versions of IE on each (http://www.russellheimlich.com.....-on-a-mac/) HAH Results: If you read the last couple of comments on the referenced blog, you’ll see that [...]

By: revive

revive — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:57:16 +0000

The Activation issue is one presented anytime the VPCs are converted to run in another Virtual Machine instead of M$’s ! Thanks M$ ! Anyways, there are one of two ways to make this work:
1) Find someone with the older, non-expiring, non-license-requiring VPC images for IE6, IE7 and IE8
2) Wait to see if M$ releases updated VPC images (since they expire Jan 01, 2010 it should be soon).. and hopefully they will fix this oversight..

If anyone has the aforementioned ‘older, non-expiring, non-license-requiring VPC images’ – PLEASE let me know !

By: Justine

Justine — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:57:59 +0000

Great walkthrough, thanks a lot.

However, I have the same problem as Joel – followed the steps by screwlewse and it’s asking for activation and serial number. It was okay first time it started, but after restart (required after installing VMTools) it won’t let me login at all.

By: Russell Heimlich

Russell Heimlich — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:19:54 +0000

Weird. I never experienced that.

By: Joel

Joel — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:03:32 +0000

Yep – it’s asking for a serial #

By: Russell Heimlich

Russell Heimlich — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:01:45 +0000

Is it asking you for a serial number or something? If I remember to activate Windows you just click on a button and it does its thing over the Internet.

By: Joel

Joel — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:50:02 +0000

Hmm, ok, so I followed the directions by screwlewse and when I run my VM – it’s asking me to Activate my Windows version!? What the heck! What do I do now?

By: Russell Heimlich

Russell Heimlich — Mon, 25 May 2009 22:53:17 +0000

It should. Give it a whirl and let me know.

By: shawn

shawn — Mon, 25 May 2009 00:36:13 +0000

I’d like to run Windows 7 beta on my MBP w/ VMWare Fusion 2. Will this method fly with Windows 7?

By: line55

line55 — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:01:04 +0000

I can verify this worked for me (Leopard 10.5.5, Mac Pro).

Only thing I needed was an XP ISO for network drivers.