you can use free version of esxi, and install it on your desktop hardware (but you need to do a trial, may be your mother board will support its a trial/error) if you are able to install you can copy the 2003 VM files to the esxi datastore, and then you can connect your laptop (you need to configure networking) and access the esxi and run the gues OS. these things.... are little complicated to manage...but you will get some good performance.
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