To some earlier questions in this thread:<br><br>The free version of VirtualBox can use USB devices though I think you have to install the Guest additions.<br><br>You can convert your physical install to a virtual machine:<br>
  <a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows">https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows</a><br>  <a href="http://www.sysprobs.com/virtualbox-p2v-disk2vhd-errors-fix">http://www.sysprobs.com/virtualbox-p2v-disk2vhd-errors-fix</a><br>
<br>and for VMware:<br>  <a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/">http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/</a><br><br clear="all">-- <br>Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry<br><br>Please protect my address like I protect yours. When sending messages to multiple recipients, always use the BCC: 
(Blind carbon copy) and not To: or CC:. Also remove all of the addresses from the message body before forwarding the message. These simple 
measures prevent spy programs from capturing the addresses shown in the recipient list and the message body.<br>