Turning Physical Windows Systems into Virtual Machines for Use on Linux Desktop

Did you know that ...

You can use your own install of Windows on your linux box? By using Xen, an opensource virtual machine solution, you can run windows within your linux box without having to dual-boot and restart. Just follow this link to read an excellent howto from howtoforge.com on setting up xen on debian ubuntu.

An alternate solution is to use VMware from VMware.com. A tutorial for setting up VMware to run windows on ubuntu can be found here. Although VMware is commercial software (thus not free), there is a trial version available (which is all you should need -- according to the tutorial), not to mention VMware is one of the more popular virtualization software solutions for windows on linux.

Well, now you know!

Edit: spelled commercial wrong ... "commertial", lol.