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http://modern.ie/ ? Microsoft's got VMs for almost every IE/OS combination you could want.

Edit: meaning, why are you limiting yourself to just XP. I realize that was unclear.

Huh? I am using VMs from modern.ie (among others). You need XP to run IE8. The IE8 VM is XP.

Now this is cool. Thank you for sharing the link.

I have found it to be pretty slow and painful.