It is ridiculous, but it's what we had to do to get the new version working.  It also maximizes security and leaves open the possibility of having remote bitcoind/bitcoin-qt instances, etc.  And will be useful for heavyweight Armory servers in the future.  For now, it's what we gotta do.  We'll scale it back in future versions after this design is stable.



Good question!  I actually don't know.  Anyone want to make some VMs and try it out for me/us?