jimdigriz/qemuie

Microsoft IE and Edge Virtual Machines for QEMU.

Microsoft IE and Edge VMs for QEMU.

Related Links

• modern.IE
  • Microsoft Development Virtual Machines
• Windows 10 development environment
• Windows on QEMU
  • cardi/qemu-windows-10
  • QEMU + Windows 10 x64 + KVM + IOMMU + AHCI + QXL & SPICE (as socket)

Preflight

• coreutils (for nice) and util-linux (for ionice)
• cURL
• jq
• Make
• OVMF
• unzip
• QEMU

Debian

apt-get -yy install --no-install-recommends \
	coreutils \
	curl \
	jq \
	make \
	ovmf \
	spice-client-gtk \
	unzip \
	util-linux \
	qemu-kvm \
	qemu-system-x86 \
	qemu-utils

Usage

You should run the following from a mountpoint with a lot of disk space (at least 20GiB, 50GiB if you plan to use the development environment):

make -f /path/to/qemuie/Makefile msedge

This will drop you onto the QEMU monitor.

In another terminal use the following to get a terminal:

make -f /path/to/qemuie/Makefile spice

You should open 'Device Manager' and 'Update Driver' by telling Windows to recurse into the directories of starting at D:\ for all unknown devices as well as the 'Display adapter'.

N.B. for Windows 10 you should 'Pause updates' otherwise the guest will spend its time spinning the CPU at 100% whilst downloading updates for a VM destined for destruction.

You should also download and install the Windows Guest Tools (you can call make spice-guest-tools-latest.exe to do this for you).

Other available targets can be found with all like so:

make -f /path/to/qemuie/Makefile
VMs:
  ie10                           - start ie10
  ie11                           - start ie11
  ie8                            - start ie8
  ie9                            - start ie9
  msedge                         - start msedge

  dev                            - start development environment

Misc:
  help                           - this message
  spice                          - connect via SPICE client
  http                           - serve the local directory via http://0.0.0.0:8000 (requires Python or PHP)
  spice-guest-tools-latest.exe   - download spice-guest-tools-latest.exe

qemuie's Issues

Make `zip`/`md5.txt` intermediates

Avoid using piles of disk space, we only care if upstream has something newer than the qcow2 file afterall.

Edge starts with a black screen

Logging out (Ctrl-Alt-Del) and then back in is a workaround, it seems something stalls as part of the autologin sequence.

Cache

We should revalidate (daily?) that vms.json does not need updating, as well as all the files that are linked from it.

Chicken-and-egg `vms.json`

We need vms.json to download to automatically create the targets, but of course this file does not exist on first run.