[GTALUG] Seeking recommendation: KVM vs Virtualbox

[Michael Galea]

I have an old Win XP (32 bit) instance loaded with dozens of games, that
I would like to take traveling. I would like to run it in a VM.
The host will be a laptop running 64 bit debian i3 core.

I would really like to just turn the XP NTFS partition into an image
file which I can run on the VM.  This would save me hundreds of hours of
reinstalling stuff.
The best bet for this seems to be using virtualbox, and there are
(pretty tricky) howtos for it. I do not think you can do this at all
with KVM.

Has anyone ever managed something like this before? Let me learn from
your pain!

PS: Another alternative is to install the higher performing KVM to 
install a fresh XP instance and use a commercial PC program mover to 
copy the games from the PC XP to the instance, via the network. There
are tools such as PcMover that claim to do this. Has anyone ever done
this before?

Thanks

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Michael Galea