Although the virtual box method works well, virtual box does not need certain drivers thus not transferred over to the host laptops.
The solution was to create a copy of Curie-laptop directly on a donor computer, clone it with clonezilla, and transplant the OS into the host computer.
The clonezilla file will not contain - okra curie, internal dependancies and it’s pip packages as it often gets modified.
A specific brand new affordable laptop will also need to be chosen to maintain its hardware consistency
We have chosen the: Lenovo E49