[cvsnt] Virtual Machines

[Peter Crowther]

> From: Tony Hoyle
> VMs should never drift - the two technologies that I have
> experience of
> (VMWare and Xen) the clock is held in lockstep with the host,
> so as long as the host is correct all the VMs will be too.

Virtual PC doesn't do this.  Unsurpisingly, given the workstation version's free*, there are a lot of VPC images out there.

                - Peter

* Yes, I know about VMware Player, and I also know where to get hold of empty preconfigured disks and how to hand-edit the config files.  Not everyone does!