Re: cheap dual-boot desktop recommendations?

["Nathan Meyers-2" <user=8@nabble.blu.org>]

 Seth Gordon wrote: 
> Jerry Feldman wrote: 
>> 
>> I think that Dan has the right idea. If you can reduce the cost of 
>> Windows by possibly salvaging a legal copy of Windows from an older 
>> machine no longer in service or from your employer. Additionally, 
>> VMWare server and VMWare Player are free. 
> 
> My wife's laptop is a Dell Inspiron 1100(?) dual-booting Windows XP 
> and Ubuntu, but I don't think we have the CD for it.  How could that 
> Windows instance be migrated onto a virtual machine? 
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