Create a VirtualPC Machine from a Physical Vista Machine
Image for Windows and the Operating System Deployment (OSD) Tool Suite provide all the software you need to copy your physical machine to a VirtualPC machine. This video shows you one of the ways that you can restore a Windows Vista image created on a physical machine to a VirtualPC machine even though the physical machine is not compatible with the VirtualPC machine.
Video: Create a VirtualPC Machine from a Physical Vista Machine