Naughty question: copy Windows XP under Fedora?

[Steven Stern]

On 01/20/2014 04:29 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 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.
> 
Why not import it as a Virtual Machine so you can run it whenever you
like? Once it's imported, you can merge the partition you used for it
into one of your fedora partitions, thus recovering the space.

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-- Steve