
At that point, roll back to your snapshot and you can rearm again when you get the message. You can rearm two times before it won’t work anymore. When you get a ‘you must activate’ notice, open a Windows cmd line and run slmgr –rearm Once you have the virtual machines installed, fire them up, set up the Windows instance (install drivers, etc.), then take a snapshot. Install IE7 OnlyĬurl -s | env IEVMS_VERSIONS="7" bash Install IE8 OnlyĬurl -s | env IEVMS_VERSIONS="8" bash Install IE9 OnlyĬurl -s | env IEVMS_VERSIONS="9" bash Install IE7, 8 and 9 Required softwareīe aware, this process can take HOURS to do, may crash in the middle and cause you to start over, take up inordinate amounts of disk space, etc. If you plan on running Internet Explorer for other purposes (such as working with an IE-only site), then this is probably not the best solution for your needs.

The point is to allow you to install Internet Explorer on Mac for the purposes of testing and developing web applications and sites. If you’re unfamiliar with using the terminal, these instructions will not help you. I cleaned it up and added additional information. The original source for this information was OSXDaily.

If you have a Mac, setting this up on your machine is easy. When you need to develop/design a solution for the majority of corporate users, you will need to test it on Internet Explorer.
