Just the part of ievms that downloads the VPC images

download-ie.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Hacked out of https://github.com/xdissent/ievms/blob/master/ievms.sh

set -o nounset
set -o errtrace
set -o errexit
set -o pipefail

curl_opts=${CURL_OPTS:-""}

log()  { printf "$*\n" ; return $? ;  }
fail() { log "\nERROR: $*\n" ; exit 1 ; }

case $1 in
  6)
    urls="http://download.microsoft.com/download/B/7/2/B72085AE-0F04-4C6F-9182-BF1EE90F5273/Windows_XP_IE6.exe"
    ;;
  7)
    urls=`echo http://download.microsoft.com/download/B/7/2/B72085AE-0F04-4C6F-9182-BF1EE90F5273/Windows_Vista_IE7.part0{1.exe,2.rar,3.rar,4.rar,5.rar,6.rar}`
    ;;
  8)
    urls=`echo http://download.microsoft.com/download/B/7/2/B72085AE-0F04-4C6F-9182-BF1EE90F5273/Windows_7_IE8.part0{1.exe,2.rar,3.rar,4.rar}`
    ;;
  9)
    urls=`echo http://download.microsoft.com/download/B/7/2/B72085AE-0F04-4C6F-9182-BF1EE90F5273/Windows_7_IE9.part0{1.exe,2.rar,3.rar,4.rar,5.rar,6.rar,7.rar}`
    ;;
  *)
    fail "Invalid IE version: ${1}"
    ;;
esac

for url in $urls; do
  log "Downloading VHD from ${url}"
  if ! curl ${curl_opts} -C - -L -O "${url}"; then
    fail "Failed to download ${url} to ${vhd_path}/ using 'curl', error code ($?)"
  fi
done

This is handy for VMWare Fusion which can import theVirtualPC .exes directly.