Boot windows xp in a window in linux
 

I remember seeing this years ago before I knew anything about linux. How would I go about booting windows xp in linux in a window?

I just quickly tried QEMU, but keep getting stuck at "GRUB Hard Disk Error". I have XP and Fedora on seperate drives, with the XP drive as primary (which can be annoying, since if EITHER drive is removed my machine won't boot!) and I'm using, as mentioned, GRUB boot loader.

Cheers for any help,

I think Qemu needs a file to boot, which could be a copy of the partition with dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/path/windows.img and boot it with: qemu -hda windows.img -boot c

Edit: just tried it, but Qemu failed to boot the image. It probably needs an environment it made itself by installing Windows wit Qemu first.

Ah so I have to image my entire windows drive... which wont even remotely fit on my linux drive... are there any other softwares I can use to just boot from the windows partition in a window? Would it mess up my drivers for the next time I boot into windows xp (since I'd be running my windows on an emulated pc, not representative of my hardware)?

Well, vmware works but is far from cheap and not open source.