Export Appliance Newbie Question

[OmaSteak]

Hello,
I am a new VirtualBox user and new to virtualization. I have used VirtualBox version 4.2.8 with extension pack on a Windows 7 PC to recreate a crashed XP Home machine with Excel/Word 2000 to run existing spreadsheets with numerous custom macros and prepare documents of existing reports of those spreadsheet results. I also run QuoteTracker to monitor stocks and feed quote data into Excel. It's taken a couple of days but now the virtual XP machine is working just like the old real crashed PC. I have a new PC coming soon that will be running Windows 7 Pro. What I'd like to do is install VirtualBox on that new PC and then "move" the current XP virtual setup to the new PC via a USB hard drive. If I use the "Export Appliance" function of VirtualBox 4.2.8 to "save my current XP setup including all installed programs and files" to the USB drive, will the "Import Appliance" feature "restore" this XP setup completely on the new Windows 7 PC? Thank you very much for your help and please excuse the total newbie dumb question.

[Perryg]

Moving the guest is easier than that. Just copy the guests complete folder to the drive (make sure it is not formatted in FAT32) and move it that way. Then use the add feature in the VBox Main Manager.

Judging from your nick are you in buffet country?

[OmaSteak]

Thank you very much for the help. Yes, I'm from the city/state otherwise known as the Kingdom of Berkshire.
As a newbie, I'm amazed at how easy VirtualBox was to install and setup. The ability of "recreate" my old Windows XP/Office2000 computer without any major hassles saved me days of work and at least the cost of Windows8/Office2013...with almost 100% certainty that all my custom Excel macros would have not survived in a much newer version. I always sort of grumbled about the time a weekly disk image took via Norton Ghost 14 but those disk images/Ghost saved my bacon for sure. Thanks again!
OmaSteak