When I got my laptop 3 years ago, it came with Windows XP on it.
Rather than blow away an actual licensed copy of Windows, I
configured it to dual boot Windows and Ubuntu.
Until recently this worked OK, but lately something in Windows kept
blowing away the GRUB boot loader. Every single time I booted
Windows, I'd have to reinstall GRUB afterwards.
Finally I had enough of this... over the weekend I used VMware
vCenter Converter to virtualize my Windows partition. Now I can
run it from Linux with VMware Player.
There were a few little hitches. For some reason bridged networking
didn't work, but NAT networking did work. It made me re-'activate'
Windows with the original key.
Both Converter and Player are free downloads.
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