Since SUnit tests seems to corrupt my image, I've been using a seperate 
instance for testing VMs.

I've found that, on occasion, it will fail fairly badly, then uppon 
quitting/nosave and re-trying (exact same sequence of commands) it would 
perform brilliantly!

Furthermore there seem to be two classes of errors, one will happen with 
a frequency of roughly 25% while another fails 80% of the time but 
succedes on the other 20%.

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This screams "race condition" to me....

I know that these are a bitch and 9/10ths to fix and the problems I'm 
experiencing aren't hindering me from using the same image/experamental 
VM to do my development, however moving towards SMP/hyperthreading 
support means that all types of race conditions must be eliminated.