Windows XP, Windows, 7, IE8 IE9 VirtualBox Appliance

Here is a .ova, a virtualbox appliance containing WinXP+IE8 and Win7+IE9.

This can be used for testing of your websites, very easy.

They also have a preconfigured selenium-node trying to connect to a selenium-grid
on 192.168.56.1 which by default will be your host vboxnet0 interface.

All you have to do is import the appliance into virtualbox and then do some configuration.

Steps:

1. Recent virtualbox
2. Working and configured vboxnet0 interface:

You can create it command line style:

VBoxManage hostonlyif create
VBoxManage hostonlyif ipconfig vboxnet0 --ip 192.168.56.1
VBoxManage dhcpserver add --ifname vboxnet0 --ip 192.168.56.100 --netmask 255.255.255.0 --lowerip 192.168.56.101 --upperip 192.168.56.254
VBoxManage dhcpserver modify --ifname vboxnet0 --enable

Or, gui style, look at the provided screenshots.

3. Import appliance, File -> Import Appliance
4. When asked, regenerate mac addresses
5. Launch machines
6. DONE!

7. BONUS! You can start and stop machines, command line style:

start:
VBoxManage startvm "XPIE8" --type headless
VBoxManage startvm "7IE9" --type headless

stop:
VBoxManage guestcontrol XPIE8 execute --username winxp --image SHUTDOWN.exe -- -s -t 0
VBoxManage guestcontrol 7IE9 execute --username win7 --image SHUTDOWN.exe -- -s -t 0

When started headless, you have a working distant-screen service on ports:
23389 XPIE8
23390 7IE9

Have problems? Comment here.

If you do not need selenium, remove it from startmenu.