The new VM box is operational. It has an Intel Xeon E3-1230 and thus relies on kvm_intel instead of kvm_amd. But with the 3.13.1 kernel the VMs are still getting corrupted after a few hours :-( I have no idea why and I've never seen that issue on my personal box so I also have no idea how to figure out what's really going on.
So the VM host is back to the 3.2.0 kernel. Since then I did not have not had a VM go bad.
Then I moved on to restoring and updating the VMs. That's now done except for the two Vista VMs which I'll get to next. Here's what's new:
* w2000pro - Windows 2000 Professional IPX (bug 35239) and AppleTalk support has been activated for its network card. I also 'inserted' the MemTest86 CD for the kernel32:volume test (bug 31780).
* wxppro - Windows XP Professional It has all the updates it will ever get since its support period has now expired. As before it has WinPcap installed.
* w2008s64 - Windows 2008 Server (64-bits) This VM now has two network cards.
* w7u - Windows 7 Ultimate As with the other VMs I applied all Windows updates up to 2014/04/15, which means it now has Internet Explorer 11. As it's an Ultimate version I installed all the languages. Currently it's set up for Japanese but I can set it up for another language if desired. I also 'inserted' the MemTest86 CD so one can compare it with the equivalent in the Windows 2000 VM.
* w7pro64 - Windows 7 Professional (64-bit) It has all the latest Windows updates so it has Internet Explorer 11 too. However it's a plain English environment so you can use detect locale issue by comparing it with the results of the w7u VM.
* w8 - Windows 8 This has all the latest updates which means it's now running Windows 8.1 plus the Windows 8.1 Update. As before it also has the optional Direct X components, msxml4, and the Visual C++ runtime environments. And of course it now has Internet Explorer 11.
* w864 - Windows 8 (64-bit) Like the previous VM it has all the updates and thus is running the Windows 8.1 Update and Internet Explorer 11, but without all the extras.
If there's interest it's possible to run a VM from another snapshot, to test Windows 8.1 pre-Windows 8.1 for instance.