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You have two pathways when installing Windows XP onto a QCOW2 image: Option A: The Legacy IDE Path (Easiest)

Once the setup finishes and the VM reboots, close QEMU. Change your boot order to boot from the hard drive ( -boot c ) and remove the installation CD. windows xpqcow2

If you have an old physical machine running Windows XP, you can convert it to a QCOW2 file using qemu-img or specialized tools. You have two pathways when installing Windows XP

qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o cluster_size=256k windows_xp.qcow2 40G Use code with caution. 2. Optimizing the QEMU/KVM Startup Command qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o cluster_size=256k windows_xp

There are several reasons why you might want to use QCOW2 with Windows XP:

| Operation | Command | |-----------|---------| | Create snapshot | qemu-img snapshot -c before_update windows-xp.qcow2 | | List snapshots | qemu-img snapshot -l windows-xp.qcow2 | | Revert to snapshot | qemu-img snapshot -a before_update windows-xp.qcow2 | | Delete snapshot | qemu-img snapshot -d snap_id windows-xp.qcow2 |