About
This is a Windows 7 (32bit) Box that is derived from a box provided by
microsoft on Modern.IE with a 10 day evaluation licence.
This box is based on the "IE11 on Win7" Vagrant Box with build number 20150916.
It is adapted to match vagrant's requirements:
- User is 'vagrant' (password 'vagrant')
- WinRM is activated (for
vagrant powershell
)
- RDP is activated (for
vagrant rdp
)
- SSH is activated (for
vagrant ssh
)
- chocolately is installed for easy unattended software installations
- Windows Defender is disabled to avoid unnecessary load
To create this box run the following steps
- Download most up to date image from "https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/"
- Unpack "IE11 - Win7.box" in ZIP-file to project directory
- run
vagrant box add "IE11 - Win7.box" --name IE11Win7
- run
vagrant up
(wait for timeout message!)
- Start VirtualBox, and do the following operations in the vanillas-win-... guest:
- open IE click "Network"
- activate "Network discovery and filesharing" for private networks
- run
\\VBOXSRV\vagrant\step1_run_on_guest_as_IEUser_as_admin.cmd
as admin
- run
\\VBOXSRV\vagrant\step2_run_on_guest_as_vagrant_as_admin.cmd
as admin
- activate "Private Network" for private networks
- optionally update Virtualbox guest additions (Virtualbox Menu "Device / Guest additions")
- run
\\VBOXSRV\vagrant\step3_run_on_host.cmd
(from host)
- (optionally upload new created
vanilla-win7-32bit.box
to http://atlas.hashicorp.com)