Sunday, October 4, 2015

Simplify standing up an IE Virtual Machine with PSIEVM

Over the weekend I was bored and decided to start a project to automate the process of standing up an IE VM with powershell. I would like to introduce PSIEVM. A powershell module that allows you to stand up an IE VM in VirtualBox (other hosts coming in the future) in one line.

PS> Get-IEVM –OS Win7 –IEVersion 9

That is the simplest form of the command.

Installation

To install, download from the github project releases page and extract to $env:USERPROFILE\WindowsPowerShell\Modules. Then to use it just import it

PS> Import-Module psievm
PS> Get-IEVM –OS Win7 –IEVersion 10 –AlternateVMLocation "G:\VMs\" –VMRootPath "G:\VMs\"

 

The parameters for Get-IEVM:

Name

Required

Type

Default

OS

YES

String

[Empty]

The OS to use:

  • WinXP, WindowsXP, Windows XP, XP
  • WinVista, WindowsVista, Windows Vista, Vista
  • Win7, Windows7, Windows 7, 7
  • Win8, Windows8, Windows 8, 8
  • Win8.1, Windows8.1, Windows 8.1, 8.1
  • Win10, Windows10, Windows 10, 10

IEVersion

YES

String

[Empty]

The version of IE. This is dependant on the version of Windows (See the table below).

  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • Edge

Shares

NO

String[]

[Empty]

These are the paths to add as a share in the VM through the VMHost. May not be fully supported in all VMHosts.

AlternateVMLocation

NO

String

[Empty]

By default the VM images will be downloaded from Microsoft, but if you have the images downloaded already, you can use this to tell the script where to get them. This can be a URL, Network Share, or a local path. The images need to follow the following pattern:

IE: IE<IEVersion>.Win<OSVersion>.For.Windows.<VMHost>.zip
Edge: Microsoft%20Edge.Win10.For.Windows.<VMHost>.zip

VMHost

NO

String

VirtualBox

The VM Host to use. Only VirtualBox is currently supported but here is the full list that will be supported (and maybe others).

  • VirtualBox
  • HyperV
  • Vagrent
  • VPC
  • VMWare

IgnoreInvalidMD5

NO

Boolean

$False

After the zip image is downloaded, the file MD5 hash is validated. If you use your own images, you will want to set this to $True.

VMRootPath

NO

String

$PWD

This is the path to download the zip image to and create the VM image folder where the VM will reside. By default it will use the Current Working Directory.

OS / IEVersion

This is the version of the OS that you want hosted and the version of IE you want with it. Here are the supported values:

 

IE 6

IE 7

IE 8

IE 9

IE 10

IE 11

MS Edge

Requires 64-bit Emulation

XP

X

 

X

 

 

 

 

 

Vista

 

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

Win7

 

 

X

X

X

X

 

 

Win8

 

 

 

 

X

 

 

 

Win8.1

 

 

 

 

 

X

 

X

Win10

 

 

 

 

 

 

X

X

Download PSIEVM

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Simplify standing up an IE Virtual Machine with PSIEVM

Over the weekend I was bored and decided to start a project to automate the process of standing up an IE VM with powershell. I would like to introduce PSIEVM. A powershell module that allows you to stand up an IE VM in VirtualBox (other hosts coming in the future) in one line.

PS> Get-IEVM –OS Win7 –IEVersion 9

That is the simplest form of the command.

Installation

To install, download from the github project releases page and extract to $env:USERPROFILE\WindowsPowerShell\Modules. Then to use it just import it

PS> Import-Module psievm
PS> Get-IEVM –OS Win7 –IEVersion 10 –AlternateVMLocation "G:\VMs\" –VMRootPath "G:\VMs\"

 

The parameters for Get-IEVM:

Name

Required

Type

Default

OS

YES

String

[Empty]

The OS to use:

  • WinXP, WindowsXP, Windows XP, XP
  • WinVista, WindowsVista, Windows Vista, Vista
  • Win7, Windows7, Windows 7, 7
  • Win8, Windows8, Windows 8, 8
  • Win8.1, Windows8.1, Windows 8.1, 8.1
  • Win10, Windows10, Windows 10, 10

IEVersion

YES

String

[Empty]

The version of IE. This is dependant on the version of Windows (See the table below).

  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • 10
  • 11
  • Edge

Shares

NO

String[]

[Empty]

These are the paths to add as a share in the VM through the VMHost. May not be fully supported in all VMHosts.

AlternateVMLocation

NO

String

[Empty]

By default the VM images will be downloaded from Microsoft, but if you have the images downloaded already, you can use this to tell the script where to get them. This can be a URL, Network Share, or a local path. The images need to follow the following pattern:

IE: IE<IEVersion>.Win<OSVersion>.For.Windows.<VMHost>.zip
Edge: Microsoft%20Edge.Win10.For.Windows.<VMHost>.zip

VMHost

NO

String

VirtualBox

The VM Host to use. Only VirtualBox is currently supported but here is the full list that will be supported (and maybe others).

  • VirtualBox
  • HyperV
  • Vagrent
  • VPC
  • VMWare

IgnoreInvalidMD5

NO

Boolean

$False

After the zip image is downloaded, the file MD5 hash is validated. If you use your own images, you will want to set this to $True.

VMRootPath

NO

String

$PWD

This is the path to download the zip image to and create the VM image folder where the VM will reside. By default it will use the Current Working Directory.

OS / IEVersion

This is the version of the OS that you want hosted and the version of IE you want with it. Here are the supported values:

 

IE 6

IE 7

IE 8

IE 9

IE 10

IE 11

MS Edge

Requires 64-bit Emulation

XP

X

 

X

 

 

 

 

 

Vista

 

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

Win7

 

 

X

X

X

X

 

 

Win8

 

 

 

 

X

 

 

 

Win8.1

 

 

 

 

 

X

 

X

Win10

 

 

 

 

 

 

X

X

Download PSIEVM