
How long this takes depends on your internet connection and how many versions of Internet Explorer you chose to install

Launch the Terminal (located in /Applications/Utilities/).

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Installation size per IE Virtual Machine is about 11GB, to install all Windows VM’s it will take about 48GB of disk space. This has been tested and confirmed to work with all modern versions of Mac system software including OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.7 Lion, and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Notes: the admin password for all of the IE VMs is “Password1” without the quotes.

This is achieved by using the freely available VirtualBox software from Oracle, and combining that with free Internet Explorer testing virtual machines from Microsoft, the trick is converting these free IE vm’s so that they work flawlessly under OS X (or Linux, technically), and that is all handled automatically with this method. We’re going to walk you through how to install Internet Explorer 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 in a virtual machine running Windows, directly in Mac OS X – for free. Run Internet Explorer 7, 8, 10, & 11 in Mac OS X the Easy & Free Way
