Hello fellow nuker's. I am noob here, and have struggled with making new custom modules for DNN. Often I break the application when I make errors and that is frustrating and time-consuming. I need to replicate the DB, and some times even need to make a newa install on my workstation.

I was over at the VmWare site to look for a ready-made solution but could not find anything for DNN.
If one of the wizards in here could make an vmware image we could all start to take it to the limit without spending time reinstalling it when we break the application. We could just restart the app and things would be all good.
Personally I do not have the knowledge to make this work, but I am sure someone in here easily could make a copy that will run on all pc's, without needing the asp.net framework, the ms sql databases or anything else.
That way even more people would be able to explore and benefit from this great open-source solution.

Take a look at the link for a better understanding of what I am thinking of.
http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/index.html

If you have comments do let me know. I am sure this would be great for more people then just me.
What do other people think?

There must be people in here who knows a thing or two about how I would start to make a DNN virtual machine?
Or is this something that I am curently all alone pursuing? If this is allready done please speak up and let me know.
As I have played around with aother virtual stuff it seems that changes med to the application is handled pretty well. So that just shows us that an developer/noob enviroment like this would be of huge benfit. If somethings breaks just reset the player and it works like nothing wrong ever happend.

Any thoughts and comments I will recieve with greetings.

If you search through the VMWare appliances you will see that they are all based on some Linux/FreeBSD or other open source operating system.  You cannot create and redistribute a VM with a licensed OS like Windows or MacOS because you do not have the rights to do so.  Distributing the OS requires that everyone have a valid license for the OS and requires the OS to be distributed with a license that allows it to be redistributed.  So regardless of whether or not you could redistribute DNN or Sql Express, you could not redistribute Windows so it is a moot point.

With that said, the new DotNetNuke installer makes it really trivial to install a new DotNetNuke instance so the need for a VM is greatly reduced.  Where I see VMs being very valuable is for doing testing.  We use VMWare internally for doing our product reviews so that we can always roll our test environment back to a baseline snapshot after performing our tests.