I did some further digging on this and it appears that it only happens when the virtual machine definition includes a floppy device, either via -drive or -fda. Removal of the floppy device results in being able to successfully boot and install Windows XP. However, this does seem to prevent one from providing the virtio drivers for storage during installation as the additional storage drivers are provided via floppy.
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