Alternative(s) to VirtualBox

So I have at various times installed VMWare Player, VMWare Server, and
VirtualBox. Host was Debian, guest was Windows, generally but not always XP
Pro.

VB's Guest Additions' video driver doesn't work correctly with Adobe
Premiere Elements. I have filed a bug at Oracle's site, but no action yet
after five weeks.

I tried kvm, but virt-manager reports "Unable to connect to libvirt" even
though libvirtd is running.

If I start kvm from the command line I get:

WARNING: gnome-keyring:: couldn't connect to: /home/carlf/.cache/keyring-7jbXBL/pkcs11: No such file or directory
error: failed to get domain '/mnt/data/kvm-images/xp2'
error: An error occurred, but the cause is unknown

So anyone have another suggestion? VMWare doesn't appeal to me--I didn't
like it much when I tried it years ago and it's very, very proprietary.

Xen seems to be more difficult to set up than the above-mentioned and
Windows support is not complete--although the implication of the Xen docs
is that even without paravirtualization it wouldn't run *slower* than under
VB.

Any kvm experts who can help me debug? Anyone got a brilliant howto or FAQ
to point me to? Should I file a bug against Debian's kvm/qemu? Any advice
much appreciated. I'm currently running Testing on an AMD FX-8120-based
system.

Thanks.
Carl Fink nitpicking@nitpicking.com

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