I think you're misinterpreting my response. Of course there's value in testing operating systems within VMs. In fact, a solid chunk (if not most) of the Ubuntu

I think you're misinterpreting my response. Of course there's value in testing operating systems within VMs. In fact, a solid chunk (if not most) of the Ubuntu install-base is VMs, believe it or not. I wasn't talking about that at all, but rather responding to the idea that, if I used a VM as my development platform, my problems would go away. In reality, in that context, it really changes nothing.