[estel]

These kind of already existed: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=1157...

[pdknsk]

It's VHD (although relatively easy to make work with VirtualBox), but more importantly exe files. I don't know it cabextract or unrar can handle this. In either case, it needlessly unfriendly to non-Windows users.

[xdissent]

The IE6 image is a cab and the rest are rars. I tried to make it more friendly: http://xdissent.github.com/ievms/

[raverbashing]

Then great

I won't use them (even though I remember something about cabextract being able to extract .exe files)

I won't spend a minute testing on IE except if needed.

[judofyr]

That's not an official cross-platform image. I have used some tools that converts them to VirtualBox, but it hasn't been very reliable. As I said: Having official support for Linux and Mac will be great.