To some earlier questions in this thread:

The free version of VirtualBox can use USB devices though I think you have
to install the Guest additions.

You can convert your physical install to a virtual machine:
  https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows
  http://www.sysprobs.com/virtualbox-p2v-disk2vhd-errors-fix

and for VMware:
  http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/

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