Windows VirtualBox VM Downloads

Windows (with IE8/9/10/11/Edge) Virtual Machine Download URLs:

Official: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/

GitHub: https://github.com/magnetikonline/linux-microsoft-ie-virtual-machines 

Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/ie11.win81.virtualbox

For Speaker and Microphone:
VirtualBox Settings:
Audio
Enable Audio
Host Audio Driver: Pulse Audio
Audio Controller: Intel HD Audio

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For WebCam (Linux Host):
Add your user to the vboxusers group:
$ sudo usermod -a -G vboxusers $(whoami)

Logout from your desktop and login again. If you open a terminal you can check that the group appears at the end of your group list:
$ groups

VirtualBox Settings:
USB
Enable USB Controller
Add the WebCam (by the 2nd button)

Note: Default username: IEUser; password: Passw0rd! .

VirtualBox unable to start error: rc=-5640

If you see this error when trying to run a guest machine in VirtualBox:

(rc=-5640)
Please try reinstalling VirtualBox.
where: supR3HardenedWinReSpawn what: 1
VERR_SUP_VP_THREAD_NOT_ALONE (-5640) - Process Verification Failure: The process has more than one thread.

It seems that the program is not correctly parsing the memory holding the count of the threads. If you try several times, you may start the VM successfully but the chance of success is random. 

You can also try random things to see if by luck the system would wipe off the affected memory so that the program reads 0 from it. The random things you can try could be opening/closing a browser tab, running/closing a program, locking/unlocking screen, etc.

If nothing works, by increasing the memory of the VM, we have a better chance to have the counter read as 0 so that the VM can start.

Anyway, after fail to start the VM for several times, you may try this simple trick too. It takes about 1 minute of your time and may surprisingly work (you may still need to try starting the VM a couple of times after the change, because it only increases the chance of success but whether it will succeed is still random.)

1. Go to the Settings of the guest VM.
2. Select System.
3. Select the Motherboard tab.
4. Increase Base Memory (in my case, I only increase it by 100MB).
5. Start the VM.

VirtualBox: copy and paste between host and guest OS

To enable or disable the copy-and-paste between the host OS and the guest OS:

1. Select the guest virtual machine.
2. Click on the Settings button or from menu Machine|Settings...
3. In Settings, click on General.
4. Click on the Advanced tab.
5. Click on the option of Shared Clipboard and choose Bidirectional.
6. Restart the guest VM.