my system is ASUS X550LA with win8.1 on core i5 with VT and 4GB of RAM. I upgraded to the PRO version for hyper-v but it did not work. the .vhd Microsoft gave only works on hyper-v for Windows 2008.
- download BizTalk developer training kit
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=14865
- move all of them to C:\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 Training\
- run BizTalkDevCourseVM.part01.exe to create the C:\Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 Training\VM\common\BizTalk2010Demo.vhd
- download the winimage. I downloaded the 64bit version for my windows 8.1
http://www.winimage.com/download.htm
- use winimage to convert BizTalk2010Demo.vhd to BizTalk2010Demo.vmdk. This conversion take a while. Once complete, you can uninstall winimage.
- download and install vmware workstation
- create a new VM with BizTalk2010Demo.vmdk as the harddisk.
- make sure you select IDE instead of default scsi. scsi will give the BSOD (bluescreen of death)
- activate the windows 2008R2 because the trial version expired a long time ago. You need a valid Win2008r2 Key for this.
