Windows XP Tools

Get Windows XP VHD from Windows XP Mode ZIP

https://archive.org/details/windows-xp-mode_20200907

Open the ZIP

Extract the VHD using 7-zip

Get old vmguest.iso for Integration Components

https://github.com/adminsecurityeu/vmguest

Active Windows XP using xp_activate32

https://github.com/laomms/xp_activate32

Install LegacyUpdate

https://legacyupdate.net

Windows 11 24H2 Breaks Network on XP clients

Solution: Either change Hyper-V network card with legacy network card, or within the XP guest OS, disable TCP/UDP checksum offload.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/windows-11-24h2-broken-windows-xp-hyper-v-vms-fix/e074f7c3-98e7-4f1f-941b-4c2129cf0e1a