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If you are setting this up for a specific project, let me know:
To make this a high-quality "template" image, perform these steps inside the guest OS: windows 7 qcow2 top
qemu-system-x86_64 \ -enable-kvm \ -cpu host,hv_relaxed,hv_spinlocks=0x1fff,hv_vapic,hv_time \ -smp 4,sockets=1,cores=4,threads=1 \ -m 4096 \ -drive file=windows7.qcow2,if=virtio,cache=none,aio=native,discard=unmap,l2-cache-size=8M \ -netdev user,id=net0 \ -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0 \ -vga qxl \ -usb -device usb-tablet If you are setting this up for a
Inside that .qcow2 — QEMU Copy-On-Write — lies a full Windows 7 installation. The glossy taskbar. The translucent Aero Glass. The Start orb that actually opened a menu you could trust. Somewhere in that virtualized C: drive, there’s a user folder named after someone who might have hoped, in 2012, that this OS would last forever. There are bookmarks pointing to Flash-enabled websites. A saved game of Solitaire that hasn’t been touched since the last security patch — January 14, 2020. The Start orb that actually opened a menu you could trust