[atlas] VM probes (was Re: Feature request for IP record route feature in RIPE Atlas)

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 10:57:36AM +0100,
 Sebastian Neuner <sebastian at sneuner.org> wrote 
 a message of 55 lines which said:

> It's important for the Atlas measurements to be comparable, which
> can be a problem if you just run a virtual probe on someones
> hardware in a datacenter somewhere. Or to put it simple: we want to
> measure networks, not virtualization hardware.

[Full agreement here]

> Also, since people are using the results for scientific purposes, it
> should at least be possible to differentiate between results of
> hardware and software probes.

I assume that, should it be done, we would have system tags to
differentiate them?