FluentMigrator & Lock request timeout period exceeded

Question

I am shifting my development platform to a virtual machine (using VirtualBox), and have installed Win7, VS2010 and SQL Server Express 2008 R2. I have a project that uses FluentMigrator to look after the database.

When I (try to) run the initial migration, all console messages come back from FluentMigrator reporting success, but when I look at the database, no changes have been made. Also, if I try to refresh the schema in SQL Server Management Studio Express within a couple minutes of running the migration, I get a "Lock request timeout period exceeded" message.

Unfortunately SQL Server Express does not come with SQL Profiler. Is there a way I can look at the queries hitting the database without this?

Any other ideas on why FluentMigrator would be reporting success when there is no success to be found?

Thanks in advance.