[CVALE] Dual boot to Wine, vmware, etc.

[Wayne Vieira]

 I have a dual-boot machine (OpenSuse/WinXP) that I've always wanted to run
as a single system, i.e. one of the OSes underneath the other virtually, via
wine, Vmware, or whatever.  My general preference is to run XP inside Linux,
but the other way around would be fine too.

The Howto's I've looked at all seem to involve creating a windows filesystem
on linux partitions, verses using existing Windows partitions.  Is this
correct, or am I just reading in the wrong place?  I don't want to create a
new windows set of files, I want to use the existing files I already
created.

If I am not misreading something, is there one of the virtual machine
packages that let me do this?

Thanks,
Wayne