BizTalk development on virtual machines has become an
essential part of the development process.
The speed with which you can tear down and build up BizTalk VMs means
you spend less time configuring environments and more time developing
artifacts. Typically, an instance of one
of these environments contains everything (BizTalk, SQL Server, Visual Studio,
etc.) running on a single VM machine.
Spinning up a new development environment is as easy cloning your base
image. Occasionally, though, you need a
development or sandbox environment that’s a little more than a virtualized
BizTalk “island”, of sorts, with everything running on a single VM.