OK, so most of us want to move away from Microsoft when we move to Mac; but as web developers, that’s not really a reality as Internet Explorer still commands the market share for modern browsers.
We’re currently reviewing a number of our sites for IE8 compatibility and as such, I needed to install it on my MacBook 
After some quick Googling I found a great post on getting IE8 running on your Mac.
It is an interesting tact for Microsoft to enable testing on multiple versions of Internet Explorer via virtualisation as opposed to running multiple versions on the same OS.
As for the setup, I used Qemu on an XP VMWare instance to convert the VirtualPC Hard Disk to be VMWare compatible. Initially I had some errors in getting Qemu to work, and I had to cd into the qemu/bin directory, rather than the qemu directory itself (as per the instructions). I also had to copy a required .dll into the bin directory and then it all converted smoothly.
I didn’t try it out, but some people had success using Q on the Mac to convert the VirtualPC Hard Disk rather than using Qemu on the PC.
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