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The purpose of this HowTo is to provide a quick guide to installing Windows XP as a virtualized guest operating system on Linux using KVM. It is assumed that the appropriate KVM packages are installed on your Linux system. Steps to achieve vary between Linux distributions so refer to the documentation for your platform for details on how to do this.

For the purposes of this tutorial you will need a copy of the Windows XP installation DVD and associated license key.

Once you have the Windows XP installation media the next task is create a disk image to contain the guest operating system. This can be created using the ''qemu-img'' tool. The following ''qemu-img'' command creates a 6Gb disk image called ''winxp.img'':

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