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If the installer hangs, you may need to disable ACPI with -machine acpi=off .

This method is often paired with the use of virtio drivers. Since the standard Windows XP installer lacks drivers for virtio devices, you'll need to load them from a virtual floppy drive ( virtio-win-0.1.96_x86.vfd ) during the installation process. windows xpqcow2