: VirtIO drivers for Windows XP if you intend to use high-performance disk and network interfaces. Microsoft Community Hub 2. Creating the QCOW2 Disk Image
Many CNC machines and medical devices still rely on XP. By wrapping the physical hard drive into a QCOW2 file ( dd if=/dev/sdb of=physical-drive.img then convert to QCOW2), you can migrate a dying industrial PC to a modern Dell server running KVM. windows xp qcow2