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A 10GB virtual drive only takes up as much space on your physical disk as the data actually inside it. Snapshots:

If using virt-manager , ensure the disk section uses:

Windows XP was released in 2001, long before cloud virtualization existed. Consequently, .

You can create a "Gold Master" Windows XP image and then use it as a read-only backing file . New virtual machines will only store their unique changes in their own small qcow2 files, allowing you to run multiple XP instances while sharing the same base system files.

Use -net none in QEMU to disconnect the VM from the network entirely.

Running older industrial or proprietary software that is incompatible with Windows 10 or 11.

Change the QEMU drive controller type back to if VirtIO drivers were not installed during F6 setup. High Host CPU Usage Windows XP lacks modern ACPI idle loops

Want me to turn this into a Twitter thread or a Reddit-style post instead?

Since Windows XP development ended long ago, you must use older, compatible VirtIO driver ISOs (specifically version or earlier, as newer versions dropped XP support). Download the legacy virtio-win ISO.

It’s amazing how fast this 22-year-old OS runs on modern hardware. No drivers to hunt down (mostly), and the UI is peak early-2000s aesthetic.

qemu-system-x86_64 \ -m 1024 \ -smp 2 \ -drive file=windows-xp.qcow2,format=qcow2,if=ide \ -cdrom /path/to/windows_xp.iso \ -boot d \ -device rtl8139,netdev=net0 \ -netdev user,id=net0 \ -device AC97 \ -vga std

qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1024 -cpu pentium3 -smp 1 \ -drive file=windows_xp.qcow2,format=qcow2,media=disk,bus=0,unit=0 \ -cdrom /path/to/windows_xp_sp3.iso -boot d \ -vga std -net nic,model=rtl8139 -net user Use code with caution.

Windows Xpqcow2 [BEST]

A 10GB virtual drive only takes up as much space on your physical disk as the data actually inside it. Snapshots:

If using virt-manager , ensure the disk section uses:

Windows XP was released in 2001, long before cloud virtualization existed. Consequently, .

You can create a "Gold Master" Windows XP image and then use it as a read-only backing file . New virtual machines will only store their unique changes in their own small qcow2 files, allowing you to run multiple XP instances while sharing the same base system files. windows xpqcow2

Use -net none in QEMU to disconnect the VM from the network entirely.

Running older industrial or proprietary software that is incompatible with Windows 10 or 11.

Change the QEMU drive controller type back to if VirtIO drivers were not installed during F6 setup. High Host CPU Usage Windows XP lacks modern ACPI idle loops A 10GB virtual drive only takes up as

Want me to turn this into a Twitter thread or a Reddit-style post instead?

Since Windows XP development ended long ago, you must use older, compatible VirtIO driver ISOs (specifically version or earlier, as newer versions dropped XP support). Download the legacy virtio-win ISO.

It’s amazing how fast this 22-year-old OS runs on modern hardware. No drivers to hunt down (mostly), and the UI is peak early-2000s aesthetic. You can create a "Gold Master" Windows XP

qemu-system-x86_64 \ -m 1024 \ -smp 2 \ -drive file=windows-xp.qcow2,format=qcow2,if=ide \ -cdrom /path/to/windows_xp.iso \ -boot d \ -device rtl8139,netdev=net0 \ -netdev user,id=net0 \ -device AC97 \ -vga std

qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1024 -cpu pentium3 -smp 1 \ -drive file=windows_xp.qcow2,format=qcow2,media=disk,bus=0,unit=0 \ -cdrom /path/to/windows_xp_sp3.iso -boot d \ -vga std -net nic,model=rtl8139 -net user Use code with caution.