I have several virtual machines installed which is one of the reasons the computer refusing to boot caused my more anxiety than normal. I have a lot of work into this laptop. It went into an auto-recovery loop with a blue screen of death which claimed my processor was incompatible. The log file blamed a startup dll. It all led me on an irritating Microsoft wild goose chase.
It never hurts to have some VMs backed up off of the daily “production” computer.
Their portability is pretty awesome.
Unix was always deeply about being able to virtualize ‘most anything. Pretty Kool.