Would cloning a virtual machine image of a solo-mining wallet cause issues

[mr_random]

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?

[Pheal]

No. And that would waste time traveling resources .

[Trillium]

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

[grue]

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.