Installing Windows XP Home edition on qemu 0.6.0 for Mac OS X

1. First I had to create a disk image:
hdiutil create -size 2g -fs MS-DOS /Volumes/hfs/WinXPqemu
   During my tests the Windows Installer told me, that the minimal disk capacity must be 1250MB. So I think 2 GB is the absolute minimum.
2. Then I made a iso disk image of my WinXP-CD. I used Toast Titanium 5.2 and saved the image as .iso. Toast by default sets the file name extension to ".toast", but in fact the image seems to be ISO.
3. To read the manuals I thought it to be useful to add the install directories of qemu to PATH and MANPATH:
   export "MANPATH=[insert your old manpath here]:/opt/local/share/man"
export PATH="[insert your old PATH here]:/opt/local/bin"
   You get the old values of MANPATH and PATH with the command env.
4. Then came the crucial step: Starting the guest machine from the WinXP disk image to install Windows on the prepared FAT image:
   qemu -hda /Volumes/hfs/WinXPqemu.dmg -cdrom /Users/Shared/WXHOEM_DE.iso -boot d -m 512
5. Quite soon (after 1 hour or so) Windows restarted but wanted to boot from CD again. Now the system should boot from hard disk, so I stopped qemu and restarted using this command:
   qemu -hda /Volumes/hfs/WinXPqemu.dmg -cdrom /Users/Shared/WXHOEM_DE.iso -boot d -m 512
6. Installation took several hours. I quit all applications during the install. The iBook got very hot, qemu took about 80% of CPU time. From time to time, the built-in fan started, a noise which I hear very rarely, if ever. I did some other work and took a look at the iBook from time to time, so I can't tell you the exact duration of the install. I had to enter the product key, some other information etc.
7. After a while, a black screen with Windows XP logo appeared telling me to "please wait..."
8. After an hour or so, I had to catch the train and shut down the iBook.