So, WCG awards badges based on the amount of cpu time put into a project. It doesn't matter how much work you actually do during that time. A slow pc working for 12 hours counts the same as a fast pc working for 12 hours.

I personally don't like this type of basis as it doesn't take into account work done. There is no point in putting a faster pc on this project.

On the other hand, couldn't we take advantage of this. What if you virtualized a pc and ran many copies of WCG? The slower and more numerous tasks would make it easier to acquire badges in a shorter time span.

Do we have any documents on virtualizing a pc?

I haven't touched Linux or vmware in years, so I have some questions like...

1) Whats the best virtualization software (virtualbox,vwmare,etc).
2) Best OS to use (should be simple to setup and consume minimum resources).
3) What are the limiting factors for the number of virtual instances and cores(just memory?).

Currently, I have my slower core2 duo pc running WCG, but it can only run 2 tasks at a time.

Thoughts on this? I'm in search of badges at WCG.