I don't know i had your message right Chris but i think the purpose is to
keep those machines running for a __long__ time. BUT having VMs ready would
allow anyone to offer a new machine/slice in the case that someone finally
decide to end his participation.
About VMs formats, I am not an expert bu
Wouldn't it be interesting to build some Virtual Machines that people could
grab and deploy directly in the cloud ? It might interest people willing to
contribute hardware but not having much time to dedicate at maintaining it.
I personnaly have a spare Desktop with a Quad Core and 4G of RAM that