Qemu Windows Xp Fix Smb Not Working

SMB 1.0 has to be enabled if you try to pass a local folder as an smb share to a WinXP Qemu VM. Qemu creates the temporary file /tmp/smb.conf that holds the configurations for samba. The values of this are hard coded and can only be modified after it's automatically created by Qemu.

Add the "min protocol = NT1" line to the global section of tmp/smb.conf. You can either edit that file after the VM boots up then restart, or you can use "/sed" to replace the "min protocol" line while the VM is in a pre-boot state.

Here's a template for a shell script that makes this change:

qemu-system-x86_64 [...] &

# Editing the configuration file while the VM is booting
sed -e 's/\[qemu\]/min protocol = NT1\n\[qemu\]/' -i /tmp/qemu-smb.*/smb.conf

Depending on how fast Windows boots up, you might have to restart if you don't see SMB working right away. You should be good to go.