Switching Virtualization Question

Hello All,
I am switching to an iMac which is replacing my current desktop. My question is I have some software on the existing MS machine that is not available on OSX. Is there an easy way to convert the existing hard drive (XP) to a virtual machine that can be virtually booted in Parallels or VMWare (or even bootcamp though I would prefer virtualization)? I thought VMWare had some kind of utility to do this but could not find anything.
Any advice is appreciated
Thanks,
tim

Hi Tim,
both Parallels and Fusion do have 'Transporters' or 'Converters' applications that can do what you want.
http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/features/transporter/
http://www.vmware.com/download/fusion/windowstomac.html
Regards
Stefan

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