Naughty question: copy Windows XP under Fedora?

[Klaus-Peter Schrage]

Am 20.01.2014 11:29, schrieb Timothy Murphy:
> I always keep a copy of Windows XP on my computers.
> I very rarely use them, but find that they are occasionally useful.
> In any case, with the upcoming death of XP
> I'm thinking of keeping a backup copy of my Windows partition
> on a USB stick or external hard disk.
>
> I looked briefly for a method for this under Windows,
> but all the solutions I found seemed either absurdly complicated
> or else were linked to expensive programs which I certainly don't want.
>
> It struck me that there is probably a simpler way of doing this under Linux,
> and I was wondering if someone not of a fanatical bent might help me.
>

"How to migrate existing Windows installations to VirtualBox"
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Migrate_Windows

I didn't try that yet, but I am inclined to do so due to XP's 
forthcoming end-of-life.

Klaus