[CentOS] Best way to virtualize Windows XP on Centos

> I wasted 2 weeks trying to get Solaris 10 u11 running stably on KVM with
> CentOS 6.5.  installed and ran perfectly on my first try with esxi 5.5.

Same story with FreeBSD 9.1 but I found upgrading the kernel to
something slightly less dinosauristic as the EL kernel alleviated the
problem.