: If you encounter boot loops after migrating from a physical machine to qcow2, you may need to repair the HAL
: Once inside the virtual machine, you would manually apply patches by installing them through the Windows Update mechanism if the image is connected to the internet and Microsoft still supports it via ESU, or by manually downloading and installing patches through other means. windows xpqcow2 patched
Example QEMU invocation for a patched Windows XP QCOW2 image: : If you encounter boot loops after migrating
[SOLVED] - Migrating Windows clone the XP vdi. * apply the mergeide registry update to the clone. * convert the clone to qcow2. Proxmox Support Forum How to create Windows VM? - OpenNebula Forum * convert the clone to qcow2
: Using the qcow2 "backing file" feature to deploy hundreds of XP instances instantly.