I don't want to carry my work notebook to home every day, so I thought of creating an image of the notebook's hard disk, and run it on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
So with what software can I create a virtual image, and with which software can I run this image. I have a preference for free software, but other solutions are welcome too.
Answer
VirtualBox
After finding this question: How to import an image for Virtualbox..., I did some further research and found this link describing how to turn a Windows installation into a Virtualbox virtual disk (it's for Linux, actually, but I guess one can adapt it to MacOS X). The advantage would be that VirtualBox is free, of course. That said, I have no experience with it.
Edit: harrymc suggested this article which describes how to use the VMWare Converter to convert the existing Windows installation to a vmdk-disk (VMWares Virtual Disk format). VirtualBox is able to use this disk just like its own format. (Thanks, harrymc.)
VMWare
VMWare has a Converter Tool (named VMWare Converter Tool... ;-) that does exactly that: http://www.vmware.com/download/fusion/windows_to_mac.html The Tool is free... VMWare Fusion not so much, it's just my tool of choice.
Parallels
There seems to be a special "Switcher" Edition of Parallels that has an easy way to transfer a complete Windows installation via an USB cable. Then again that solution costs money.
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