>> OTOH, last time I tried to set up a virtual machine, it took two days
>> just to install Windows XP and update to service pack 3. That's quite
>> absurdly slow...
> 
> You need better hardware.  It should never take that much time to install 
> an OS - in my VMs, it never took that long....
> 
> What specs on the machine (including host OS)?

 From memory, it was a 4 GHz Pentium IV with 512 MB RAM, running QEMU.

(The laptops I'm looking at using are this spec or worse.)

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