Migrating XP PC to Mac

My folks may get a Mac desktop, but have been using the same XP based PC for 5 years. Hard drive was upgraded and the old files were copied over using certain software I cant think of right now (Laplink) or something else. The new Macs have Intel chips and my folks can run both Mac & Windows on one machine. They could in theory copy their old drive to a new partition on the Mac and I believe Boot camp can partition on the fly and no need to reformat and use Disk Utility. They could either boot into each OS, or run each OS on the same desktop (as what some third party OSX software can accomplish) kinda like the way Classic runs on my Tiger based PPC G4 Mac I believe that Parallels desktop will do the trick but it is quite expensive.
http://media.parallels.com/video/STM/demo/us/?source=google_us&gclid=CKjI2Nepkp0 CFVRc2godjjac0g
Any more tips on the transfer? Thanks..
John

There are minimum requirements, your retail OS can be transferred?
You do need Boot Camp Assistant to prepare a drive.

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