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I’ve had a few people email me, or email the IE blog to ask about running the IE VPC’s on other VPC hosts than Microsoft VPC so I figured I’d post this to my blog. I don't think anything has changed in the images since we've started producing them back in 2006. I'm pretty sure they've never worked on in Parallels, Fusion, or any other VPC environment than Microsoft VPC. For whatever reason, the hardware key on a non-Microsoft VPC host is different than that of the Microsoft VPC host, and so Windows thinks that the hardware has changed, and it requires re-activation. If you have your own XP activation code, you can use that and reactivate the image. According to the EULA that the legal folks wrote, you're only...
It’s been almost 2 years now since we first shipped the Internet Explorer testing VPC’s so that you could test IE6 and at the time IE7 on the same machine. We understand the need for people to test IE6, IE7 and IE8 on the same machine, and remain committed to shipping the VPC’s! The VPC’s will remain an important component of testing your sites, because they give you a real, and accurate way of seeing how your site interacts with not just rendering, but JavaScript, and other components in the browser. But there’s a new option that will work fantastically for testing layout and rendering of pages, Expression Web SuperPreview. SuperPreview allows you to compare multiple rendering engines side by side, or even super-impose...
Apologies for going dark the last little while, I'm going to do my best to change that again. Lots of stuff going on here that I'm really excited about, but before I get into that, I want to do an unscientific survey. We currently offer developers and designers the following VPC images: XP + SP2 with IE6 XP + SP2 with IE7 We're looking at the next batch now, and I'm curious, if we were to add one more, which of the following would you prefer? Vista with IE7 Vista + SP1 with IE7 Also, if you're a Mac user, and want to see either VPC images compressed with ZIP, or Parallels users, a comment would be appreciated. No promises on these, I just want to understand what is more important to you. Thanks! PEte Read More...
Two quick notes that I wanted to get out there. IE8. Yep, it officially has a name now. Check out the post from Dean on the IE blog. I've uploaded the new VPC images and am just waiting for them to propagate through the severs, now. I expect it to be live within the next 24 hours. PEte Read More...
Just a quick note to say that the IE6 and IE7 VPC images are being updated as we speak, and I suspect the new versions should be online Monday or Tuesday. Read More...
It's 8:30am PST and the VPC's are in the process of being moved from the staging server to the live servers and I expect them to be up in the next hour or so. I'll update this blog post as soon as they're available! Read More...
Just a quick note to let everyone know the IE VPC images will be coming VERY shortly. Since this is the first time I've had someone else create them, it's taken a little longer than I expected it to. I hope to have the images online sometime tomorrow, and I'll post once they're up both here and on the IE blog. Read More...
Someone had posted a comment on my blog asking how I get my VPC images down to a reasonable size, so I figured I'd share it here. It's not the most fun process, but it does manage to get a VPC image down from about 5+ gigs, to about 1.5 or so. To start, make sure you do not have undo disks turned on. Create a backup copy of your VPC image, you'll need this later, and it's good to have in case anything goes wrong. In the Add/Remove Components in the control panel, remove any software (applications and Windows components) that you don't need Clear the DLL cache at the command prompt, type " sfc /cachesize=1 " reboot the computer at the command prompt, type " sfc /purgecache " Delete all $something$ files from the %windir% directory except $hf_mig...
We've seen a few reports of people having problems with the recently released IE6 VPC image. At first I thought it was because people were running the image on non-Microsoft virtualization software, which causes the image to be invalidated. But, I got a report internally from someone who confirmed they were running the VPC on Virual PC 2007, and sure enough. Obviously, that's not the problem, and I'm not sure what the problem is. I'm going to spend a few hours this week trying to track it down, but the short answer I think it that I'll end up having to release a new image. Sucky, I know. But, I do have one peice of good news. I'm going to build two Windows XP images in parallel. One for IE6, and we're going to release an IE7 on Windows XP virutal...
Cross-posted from the IE Blog In my original blog post about releasing the IE6 Virtual PC Image, we mentioned that it would expire on April 1st, 2007 (no, it wasn’t an April Fool’s joke), and that we’d be releasing a new VPC image to replace it sometime in March. Well, I’m happy to report that I propped the new VHD up on Monday morning. You can download the image here . Take note that a free download of Virtual PC 2007 is now available, replacing VPC2004. I didn’t make any major changes to the image other than adding the latest security updates. I also managed to reduce the download size to just under 400 megs, shaving off almost 100 megs from the previous image size. This image is time-bombed to July 23 rd , but we will continue to release...
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