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As a long time Windows user recently converted to Mac, I’m surprised that I don’t miss more programs than I do. Unfortunately, the most popular browser Internet Explorer (though my least favorite), hasn’t run natively on Apple’s operating system since 2003. With Internet Explorer users accounting for at least 50% of our sites’ traffic here at the Academic Health Center, it’s imperative that we ensure our pages render properly on the most popular browsers, of which IE reigns king (for now). So how do we test without resorting to a separate Windows workstation? That’s where VirtualBox steps in.
Why VirtualBox?
There are many commercial virtualization software solutions on the market today (e.g. VMWare, Parallels, etc). While their setup and integration with Mac OS is more streamlined and user-friendly, their price tags tend to be a bit hefty for testing a single application – in our case, Internet Explorer. VirtualBox happens to be the only major, freely available open-source virtualization product, and it seems to fill the void perfectly fine. If your needs exceed testing beyond Internet Explorer, you may want to consider the aforementioned virtualization solutions.
One major drawback, however, is that the online documentation may needlessly be overly-cryptic and complicated for the average end-user. These instructions are intended to simplify the process a bit. Hopefully this will save some of you the hassle and time I went through on my initial installation of VirtualBox.
Installing VirtualBox
*Before we get started, make sure you have a licensed copy of Windows XP/Vista/7 on hand to install on your shiny new virtualized environment.
Step 1
Insert Windows disc.
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Step 2
Download VirtualBox: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
Step 3
Install VirtualBox. Click ‘New’ option in top left to begin the ‘New Virtual Machine Wizard’.
- Give it a name and select the operating system relevant to your enviornment.
- Allocate memory to your VM.
- Make sure ‘Boot Hard Disk’ is selected, then choose ‘Create new hard disk’.
Step 4
Complete the ‘New Virtual Disk Wizard’.
- Select ‘Dynamically expanding storage’.
- Select hard disk size (I used default of 20GB)
Step 5
Click on the newly available green ‘Start’ button, this will begin the ‘First Run Wizard’.
- It should automatically detect the Windows 7 disc and will proceed to install on the VM.
Step 6
We could stop here, but there’s some additional functionality missing. The default mouse behavior is incredibly annoying, as it gets ‘trapped’ inside the VM. Additionally, it’s difficult to resize the VM window. To solve these issues there’s an add-on for VirtualBox called Guest Additions.
- Download from inside your newly minted Windows 7 — this is not for use on the Mac side: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.1.4/VBoxGuestAdditions_4.1.4.iso
Step 7
Mount to disc using a program like PowerISO, MagicISO. Double click from ‘My Computer’ to install. Now you should be able to easily resize your VM window and click back and forth from Windows to your Mac OS with ease.
As of my time of writing, I am using a mid-2017 MacBook Pro on Catalina. (ymmv)
Prerequisites:
The app should already be provisioned to support Angular on IE 11, or the login page may not render.
Example:
If you plan on testing locally, then your app should already be running
localhost:4200
on your machine. If this still doesn’t work, there may be a firewall, VPN or other things preventing you from accessing localhost, in which case you are probably better off accessing a deployed version at a stable url
Now you need:
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- at least 10GB of free hard disk space
- download VirtualBox for Mac OS
- Download the VirtualBox file at this free Microsoft VM page
- Unarchiver for unzipping the file above
- patience (your computer may heat up and run slow. this VM doesn’t allow copy and pasting… etc etc)
- Install VirtualBox in your applications
- Unzip the
MSEdge-Win10-VMware
file. - Open VirtualBox
Setting up the virtual machine
- Click “New”
- Select “Windows 10”
- Click “Continue”
- Select 2048MB RAM and click “Continue”
- Select “Use an Existing Virtual Hard Disk File” and find the
.vmdk
in the VM file you just downloaded
The vm disk image is now imported!
Configure the VM
Right-click “IE Edge” or whatever you named it, and click on “Settings”.
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Click “Start” in the Virtual Box GUI, or “Run” to start the VM
Get the env showing up on localhost
Open Command Prompt and type
ipconfig
. Make note of the last line. Mine says 10.0.2.2
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To get IE 11 to show localhost on our windows VM, go to the File searcher in the lower left hand corner and right-click “NotePad” to “Run As Administrator”.
You’ll be asked:
Click Yes.
When Notepad opens, open
C:WindowsSystem32driversetchosts.conf
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Add
10.0.2.2
localhost to the last line of the Notepad file you opened, and save the file (not as a .txt
, just agree to overwrite the original)Open IE 11 and hopefully, you see the app in
http://10.0.2.2:4200
Tips:
Command + E to take a screenshot of the VM desktop.
A snapshot is not a screenshot. This creates a tiny copy of the state of the machine so that you can boot it up. Pretty useful for trying to keep this on beyond the 90 day free use.
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For other ideas on how to get IE 11 for cross-browser testing on a Mac, check out: