A piggy bank of commands, fixes, succinct reviews, some mini articles and technical opinions from a (mostly) Perl developer.

Real IE6 on Ubuntu

  • Download the Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image from Microsoft
  • It is an .exe file. In Windows, run it to extract the files. You will get IE6Compat.vhd and some text files.
  • In Ubuntu, install VirtualBox 1.4.x
  • Type: vboxmanage clonehd IE6Compat.vhd WindowsXP_IE6_VirutalBox.vdi --format vdi
  • Create a new VirtualBox VM and load WindowsXP_IE6_VirutalBox.vdi into it
  • It will not log in because it says it's not registered.