Download XP and Vista VHD Ready to Use

by Guillermo 2. October 2009 10:01

I needed a virtual machine to test an application in isolation and realized I didn’t have any of my .vhd images on hand.

I looked around and came across this collection of downloadable VHDs directly from Microsoft, pre-activated, for both Vista and XP with different versions of IE including IE6 (XP only), IE7 & IE8.

The OSes are trial versions (of course) and expire January 1st for the XP installs and 120 days after first use for the Vista images.

Images require at least 1.5GB of HD space once expanded, so make sure you have some room available for it.

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