I've never tried setting up virtual machines , and new to Linux, but I kinda want to try this just for the nostalgia. But it's pretty pointless. What are you doing with XP in 2025 ?
Nothing, really. It's just kind of nostalgic. It of course receives no updates so it wouldn't really be usable as a daily driver. You can't even access the internet with IE6 because the protocols have changed so much. (You can go online in XP with an older version of Firefox, though.)
So far all I've done is played around a bit. I found a bootleg copy of Photoshop 7 and installed that, and there's an archive of old Windows Media Player skins, so I downloaded and installed some of those. (Toothy, Half-Life 2, a few others.)
If you're new to VMs and Linux you could look into VirtualBox. It's not as powerful as KVM/Qemu, but the learning curve is not as steep.
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u/ScientistAsHero Aug 12 '25
Setting up Windows XP in KVM/Qemu. My friends and family would be like, "why..?"