The following post is releasing experimental bits for feedback purposes.

If you’re like me, a clean development environment is crucial to being effective. I used to carry around a portable hard drive with my golden image (starting point VM) and a number of other environments I’ve had already configured for the projects I was currently working on. This could be for a number of different reasons, Development, Testing (to address side-by-side browser issues), etc.

One of the sites that helped make my environments simple was Modern.ie as they provided a series of Virtual Machine images with multiple versions of Windows with different versions of Internet Explorer installed. These images are available for users on a Mac, Linux or Windows machine by taking advantage of different virtualization technologies including Hyper-V, Parallels, Virtual Box and VMware Player/Fusion.

I’m pleased to be announcing a new way to leverage the Modern.ie VMs for your testing purposes — Vagrant. If you aren’t familiar with Vagrant, Vagrant is a handy tool for your tool belt which is used to create and configure lightweight, reproducible and portable development environments.

A special Thank You to the Modern.ie team for their hard work working on these VMs to make them available to Vagrant users. Read the License Terms which are offered in the link below which is outlined on the Modern.ie site.

The Microsoft Software License Terms for the IE VMs are included in the release notes and supersede any conflicting Windows license terms included in the VMs. By downloading and using this software, you agree to these license terms.

Known Issues Currently only the Virtual Box Provider is supported

is supported OpenSSH is not installed at this time which disables Provisioning

We would like to hear your feedback, reach out to @IEDevChat on twitter.