Actually pretty amazing collection of stuff to help with cross-browser testing. Includes VirtualBox VMs for IE6+
#ie8
Utilu IE Collection
“Utilu IE Collection contains multiple standalone versions of the browser Internet Explorer, which can be used at the same time.”
HOWTO: Running IE6, IE7 and IE8 On VirtualBox
HOWTO: Running IE6, IE7 and IE8 On VirtualBox
Good instructions (that acutally work!) with screenshots for getting a Microsoft VPC image running on VirtualBox.
Windows/IE VirtualBox/VPC images
Windows/IE VirtualBox/VPC images
Images provided by MS for testing compatibility with IE8 etc. Includes XP and Vista currently, with IE6-8. Compatible with VirtualBox with some tinkering.
HOWTO: Use VirtualBox to setup an Internet Explorer testing machine
HOWTO: Use VirtualBox to setup an Internet Explorer testing machine
Using the freely available images provided by Microsoft for testing purposes, just getting them to work in VirtualBox rather than Virtual PC.
IETester
“IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 2, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.”