[TriLUG] Running Winders XP in Linux

[Neil L. Little]

In my next step of transition toward being winders free, I want to run a 
XP installation as a virtual machine on a Linux box. (ok, the original 
winders box (mobo) died and I dont want to have to go through the pain 
of getting it activated again after I have replaced the Mobo, the 
Processor, the video card, ok the only thing that remains the same is 
the hard drive and the case itself.). Another reason for doing this has 
to do with the applications I had on the system as well as a lot of 
other files I still need (Like my original resume files, email contacts 
and the like).

As this is my first attempt at using virtualization ever and I see that 
there are more than one choice (QEMU, KVM, OpenVZ etc.), so which 
application is going to allow me to set this all up with the least pain?

The system is on the original hard drive (Formatted as NTFS).
The Linux distribution used will be Ubuntu (or rather the Kubutu KDE 
desktop environment).

I seem to remember that there was a program or two presented at a Trilug 
meeting in the past but all those old notes and emails from the 
discussion list, reside (you guessed it) on the Winders machine.

So I need to pointed in a direction where I can find a "How To" or 
something of the sort that will tell me about:
1. Making an Image of that Winders hard drive
2. Installing a virtual machine application on Ubuntu
3. Getting that XP installation running in the virtual machine

As always, thanks for the help in advance.

73,
Neil, WA4AZL
www.jars.net