Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage
Summary
The article documents how a fork of QEMU enables workable Itanium Merced emulation to run Windows XP/2003 on IA-64. It details building a cross-compiler toolchain on macOS (GCC 15, binutils) and assembling a QEMU environment, plus practical notes on the installation process and expected pitfalls. The post highlights retro-computing experimentation and progress in open-source tooling around Itanium.