Hi,

Virtualbox is a good choice. running in all OS you can make a vm in one
OS and carry it to another box...
Vmware server, which is free, is also a good choice, running on linux or
window$.
its also a good choice to start learning vmwareesx and other tool from
vmware.
I dont know what is your job,but  in mine we use vmware esx, vmware
server, virtualbox, and win2k8hyperv

to transform a physical box to vm, I suggest to you the best tool vmware
converter. this tool convert the physical to virtual and VirtualBox can
work with the vmware hdd as its own. A great tool!!!
imagine that you have virtualserver from vmware on linux or windows,
build a vmguest.you would like to change the hardware and without
troubble you open it with virtualbox....

You could also try a good tool  startwind software...

regards
Ph.



Le 2010-04-11 05:02, [email protected] a écrit :
> I have several old laptops (running Windows 95 and Windows 2000) that 
> are being decommissioned, and one new one on which there is an 
> occasional-use Windows XP system.  (The new one normally runs Linux)
>
> I'd like to copy their contents into virtual machines running under 
> Linux.  Preferable free-software VMs.
>
> (1) What virtual-machine systems, and what image-creation software, do 
> you recommend?
>
> (2) They're all 32-bit systems, but at some time in the future, (years 
> off now, but I plan ahead) 32-bit Intel systems are probably going to 
> become unavailable, and I'll have to emulate on something else.
> Does this affect your answer?
>
> -- hendrik
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