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Title: Would cloning a virtual machine image of a solo-mining wallet cause issues Post by: mr_random on July 06, 2013, 03:37:42 PM I have a theoretical question. Imagine it's 2009 and I am solo-mining Bitcoins on a virtual machine on my computer. If I clone that virtual machine so it's identical and run it on a virtual machine on a whole different computer with the same mining power, would that cause problems? And would it lead to twice the mining power as expected?
Title: Re: Would cloning a virtual machine image of a solo-mining wallet cause issues Post by: Pheal on July 06, 2013, 04:14:09 PM No. And that would waste time traveling resources :(.
Title: Re: Would cloning a virtual machine image of a solo-mining wallet cause issues Post by: Trillium on July 07, 2013, 11:11:04 AM I think it should be OK. But if you are generating addresses in bitcoin-qt on one of the clones you are operating then the others will not have the private keys on them that belong to those addresses.
Also have a backup of all the things (you should already). https://i.imgur.com/QnG6i3j.jpg Title: Re: Would cloning a virtual machine image of a solo-mining wallet cause issues Post by: grue on July 07, 2013, 09:47:28 PM Bad idea. As you generate more blocks, more keys are taken out of the keypool. Eventually, one clone will have to generate a new address. At that point, the two wallets won't be synchronized. You still have access to all your coins, but now you'll need to backup those newly generated keys.
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