[jwakeman]

I've wondered about this topic a lot. There are many reasons a virtual target would benefit the teams. Maybe it is possible to install vxWorks or the cRIO base image on a virtual machine using something like vm ware. But most likely it isn't that straightforward. Even with the OS running in a virtual machine you need some way to simulate all the I/O. One of the mentors on our team works for a company that develops software for vxWorks and he said they have some kind of vxWorks emulator (I think it is homegrown) that runs on Linux. I would definitely like to see this topic get discussed a bit more here though!