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Headline: рџ’» The Sweet Sound of Startup: Windows XP in a QCOW2 Package

• Lazy: It only takes up as much space as XP actually uses, not the full virtual disk size.
• Snap-happy: You can snapshot your freshly installed, SP3, no-virus XP in seconds.
• Compression-friendly: Shrink that bloated 10 GB “virtual hard drive” down to 2 GB for archiving.

Use Host Firewalls: If you must have internet, use the host machine's firewall to restrict the XP VM to specific IP addresses only. windows xpqcow2

qemu-img create -f qcow2 windows_xp.qcow2 10G

UTM (macOS/iOS): A popular interface for QEMU on Apple devices. It is often used to run Windows XP on M1/M2 Macs for lightweight tasks. Headline: рџ’» The Sweet Sound of Startup: Windows