I want to virtualize a couple of old servers whose hardware is on its last legs. So I am planning to move them onto VMWare or Virtual PC on another machine.

I am lazy, so I want to do the least work possible.

Ideally what I want to do is just convert the partitions on the existing hard drives on the two machines into VMWare/VPC disk files.

It doesn't look like VPC is capable of doing this itself (I don't know about VMWare as I have only ever used the VMWare player). I did some Googling to see if there were any other tools out there to do it, but couldn't find anything.

One server is a Linux box, with just a root partition and a swap partition on an IDE drive, the other is a Windows box with a single NTFS partition on hardware RAID array.

Can I do what I want to and how ?