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If I were to run this on a VM, would the host machine start transmitting AM, or would the hypervisor ruin the mechanism in which this works?

I rent a VPS at a nearby datacenter, and I could maybe ask for a tour. It would be interesting if I could pick up these signals from their server racks by running the code on my VM.

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exikyut|8 years ago

I thought about this for a minute, and my theory is that it wouldn't, because the hypervisor wasn't based on an RTOS. If it was RTOS-based, and the hypervisor's needed to use a known constant amount of time for its own housekeeping, you might be able to find a frequently multiple that worked.

But as things are, I don't THINK so, due to indeterminate scheduling. The likelihood is very low. (Translation: I really do want this to work because it would be cool :P - but the VM world has already been turned upside down this year....)

If you have a spare machine lying around you could maybe spin up the same VM software on that and see if anything interesting happens. After establishing very very good radio transmissions off the bare metal (and finding all potential frequencies etc), of course.

The other good question is what sort of transmission frequency would be used by the hardware your VPS is running on. That would be fun to find out about...