>>>>I notice a product called Disk2VHD. It would allow me to clone my current OS into a Visual Machine (.vhdx format). Cool. My question is will this work under Windows 10 Home? or will need to upgrade the OS. If it will work, how then? I do not see any VM program in my Start Menus.
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>>>IIRC VHD is the format used with Virtual PC and Hyper-V. Hyper-V is only available on Professional, Enterprise and Education editions. Home editions should be able to use Virtual PC. The main annoyance I'd run across with Virtual PC is that it appears to be limited to hosting 16-bit and 32-bit VMs.
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>>Thank you. I have also tried Oracle's VMware and their cloning tool. Having difficulties getting it to understand that my current machine's hard drive as the destination for the clone file. Oh well, it would have been cool to have.
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>Cloning a drive into itself is probably going to be hard to do -- the image would need to contain a copy of itself.

That would be an endless process...

I had an Ubuntu in a VirtualPC (IIRC - perhaps I was using a different engine), and it was fully 64-bit. However, after some serious mess I had with my box, i.e. windows going completely stupid, I reversed the game and now have a virtual W7 hosted by Oracle's VirtualBox under Ubuntu. Using that for just Fox, SQL and a few odds and ends - everything else is on the host box. I've put the c: drive of it on a SSD, so speed is more than OK, and if there's anything wrong (had some glitches in the VMWare tools, i.e. the piece which connects the clipboard and a few other things - all stopped when I turned most things off and left just clipboard sync on), it takes only about 15 seconds to shut down and reboot the VM. Life is good.