Steps to frustration:

  1. Install Gentoo on a virtual machine. This takes several hours, even starting from stage 3. It’s mostly the unpacking of tarballs that takes the time.
  2. Reboot virtual machine to complete install.
  3. Be shocked when, milliseconds after you select ‘Gentoo’ from the grub menu, the host PC spontaneously reboots.
  4. After rebooting host PC, start VirtualPC and wonder where the ‘Gentoo’ entry has gone.
  5. Find the Gentoo.vmc file - and find it’s 0 bytes in size.
  6. Think ‘oh well, doesn’t matter’, delete the broken .vmc file, try to create another.
  7. Get to the stage where you choose an existing virtual hard disk, pick the file, then get told you can’t use it - perhaps you don’t have permission or something.
  8. Go and have a look at the file... oh, it’s gone now.
  9. Remember something about never trusting Windows.
  10. Remember there’s a spare partition on the host PC’s drive and wonder if it’s time to put Windows in a virtual machine.
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