VS2008 and VS2010 Virtual Machine Images

VSTS virtual machines are all updated with seven virtaul images new expiration dates.

First off, the new expiration date is January 31, 2011.

You can still download them from the following location. Here are the links

VSTS “all-up” Virtual PC/Virtual Server image (7.5 GB download, expands to 17.5 GB)
TFS “only” Virtual PC/Virtual Server image (3.31 GB download, expands to 8 GB)
VSTS “all-up” Hyper-V image (7.5 GB download, expands to 17.5 GB)
TFS “only” Hyper-V image (3.31 GB download, expands to 8 GB)


Each image contains Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Beta 2, Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 2, and the various agents used for data collection. In addition, there’s some sample code and data.

VS2010 Beta to play

Virtual PC 2007 SP1/Virtual Server 2005 SP1 virtual machine (7.2 GB download, expands to 21.5 GB)
Windows Virtual PC virtual machine (7.2 GB download, expands to 21.5 GB)
Hyper-V/Hyper-V R2 virtual machine (7.2 GB download, expands to 21.5 GB)

NOTE: These images EXPIRE much earlier because of the use of evaluation and beta versions of the products installed. In particular, SQL Server 2008 stops April 9, 2010. By that date, the release version of Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 will be out.

Note:
These images do not contain antivirus so be careful and use Shared NAT or one of the many other options to get network access without causing problems.