Download test VMs of IE for Windows, Linux, OSX

Test versions of IE using Virtual Machines that you download and manage in your own development environment.

The Microsoft Software License Terms for the IE VMs are included in the release notes and supersede any conflicting Windows license terms included in the VMs.
By downloading and using this software, you agree to these license terms.

http://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools#downloads

Getting started with VMs

Instructions

1. Download the SFX and all RAR files for the VM (smaller VMs may not have files with RAR extension). In each set below that contains a split archive, the provided text file (.txt) contains URLs to all files in the set, and this can be used directly with the 'wget' command in Linux. From the terminal, enter wget -i [URL TO TEXT FILE]. For Windows XP single file downloads, use wget [URL TO DOWNLOAD FILE] instead.
   Example 1: wget -i https://az412801.vo.msecnd.net/vhd/IEKitV1_Final/VirtualBox/Linux/IE8_Win7/IE8.Win7.For.LinuxVirtualBox_2.txt
   Example 2: wget https://az412801.vo.msecnd.net/vhd/IEKitV1_Final/VirtualBox/Linux/IE6_XP/IE6.WinXP.For.LinuxVirtualBox.sfx
   
2. After the download of all files for a set is complete, give the SFX file execute permission by typing chmod +x filename.sfx at the terminal.
3. Execute the SFX executable from the terminal with ./filename.sfx to expand the virtual machine to the current directory.

Alternative Extraction Option

Regardless of the host platform that you are using, if you have problems using the self extracting archive, you can always install a program that can extract RAR files and use that to extract the VM.