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Fedora comes with a virtual machine manager( similar to vmware products) which enables you to create a virtual machine and run various other operating system. I tried installing Windows XP on a virtual machine created using virt-manager in my Fedora. Key steps to begin ..

- Make sure libvirtd demon is running
- Allocate the space as per your needs viz hard disk, RAM etc
- This one is the key step, do not forget to add a cdrom (/dev/hdc) pointning to iso image of Windows XP Disc, as after the first boot, XP installation searches for the Windows XP disk and it cannot read the host’s CDROM.

Everything goes on smooth with all these parameters.