Emphatically agreed. Migrating VMs (IME especially Windows VMs) is a frustrating proposition. Creating new Linux VMs expressly for the purpose of reading parti

Emphatically agreed. Migrating VMs (IME especially Windows VMs) is a frustrating proposition. Creating new Linux VMs expressly for the purpose of reading particular file formats is a much safer bet. It is unlikely that the ability to conveniently emulate a basic i386 system with block storage will go away in the next few decades. My assumption is that any formats I can read on Linux today will be readable in the future, as long as I have a copy of the source / binaries. This is why I included a copy of lrzip's git tree with my backups -- everything else is in a standard Ubuntu install.