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  • How to monitor VM performance using tools akin to "top."
  • Optimizing disk and network settings.
  • Best practices for VM snapshots and backups.
  • qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -machine accel=kvm -m 2048 -smp 2 -hda xp.qcow2 -device virtio-blk-pci,drive=hd0 -drive file=xp.qcow2,if=none,id=hd0,cache=none

This is the single biggest upgrade. Use VirtIO for Network and Disk I/O. Windows XP doesn't support these natively, so you'll need the VirtIO-win ISO

The QCOW2 format (QEMU Copy-On-Write) is the standard disk image format for QEMU. It is efficient because it only grows in size as data is written to the virtual disk. windows+xpqcow2+top

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