What is the VM configuration I want to build?

I've been messing with WSS and Biztalk for a while. I also spend some time looking at BPM products, mostly a product from SourceCode called K2 at the moment. Building all these products onto a single image and then doing stuff and then having to rebuild on some kit that's pretty slow by all standards is becoming a pain.

So, what I wanted was a base set of disks installed with Windows 2003 R2; one without Active Directory because you never know and one with Active Directory and DNS. From the AD base I want to add SQL Server 2005 and SP2 since this is pretty much required for most developments.

From this I then want to install Visual Studio 2008 and then finally branch from this for each of my MCTS individual exams - each may require slightly different configs.

From the SQL Server machine I would also like to branch a Visual Studio 2005 Machine so I can install and play with K2.BlackPearl. Sadly the Visual Studio 2008 integration for this isn't available yet.

Here's the picture of the configuration I am trying to build with VirtualBox (Click Image to view larger).


Tomorrow I will walk through how to build and configure the base images and then how to protect them.