I want to create a domain for an existing xp machine via virt-install. The command is taken from this wiki article http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/QEMUSwitchToLibvirt:

virt-install --accelerate --hvm --connect qemu:///system -n xp -r 512 --cdrom=/dev/null --file=WinXP.img --vnc --noautoconsole --os-type windows --os-variant winxp --force When I start and connect I see message: We apologize for the inconvenience, ... A recent hardware or software change might have caused this. When I look at the features I saw that it lacks acpi so it changes image HAL table. Is it intentional missing for that os/variant?