The Demo team has been working their backside off and re-released a new VPC image that has some very slick features in it around a Minimal CRM Foot print Profile that runs just CRM and SQL and runs in about a 1.5G of RAM.
The current VPC from April of ’09 expires on August 11th of this year and this new one will not expire until August 12th 2011. So it gives a little while longer.
You can download it from PartnerSource by clicking here. https://mbs.microsoft.com/partnersource/deployment/methodology/vpc/msdcrm4vpcrerelease.htm?printpage=false
When starting the image, the Customer and Partner Portal didn’t work for me. So I wrote a little script that copies the correct MetaBase.XML to IIS and resets IIS. Click here to download it.
Hope this works for you!
Ben