He... after a friend managed to source a PSU I now have a working IBM #POS with a Pentium, 1GiB of RAM and 40GB HDD running Windows XP SP3. It uses less than 200MiB of RAM when idle.

Better #clone the disk into a #qcow2 image that I can use with #KVM/#QEMU later... any suggestions?

Dear Lazyweb. I have a #KVM #virtualmachine with a #qcow2 backing file. The file is sparse and uses ~ 5-6 GB for a 40GB virtual disk size. I want to take this and put it on an exfat 32GB USB stick which has #ventoy and several ISO files, and which will become part of my "recovery" strategy if something goes wrong with this specialized machine (it's going to run some microscope hardware). If I just copy it it will balloon to 40GB and fail. What is the right magic to accomplish this?

How To Import QCOW2 Image Into Proxmox #Proxmox #Qcow2 #VirtualDisk #Virtualization #Linux
https://ostechnix.com/import-qcow2-into-proxmox/