This is the killer feature for Windows 7 testing. Keep one pristine windows7-base.qcow2 (read-only) and create multiple overlay images.
Download the stable from the official Fedora peer repository. Step 3: Launch the Installation via QEMU windows 7qcow2
qemu-system-x86_64 -m 2G -enable-kvm -drive file=windows7.qcow2,format=qcow2 -cdrom win7_install.iso -boot d Use code with caution. Optimizing Performance with VirtIO This is the killer feature for Windows 7 testing
qemu-img convert -c -O qcow2 windows7.qcow2 windows7-compressed.qcow2 Use code with caution. Copied to clipboard For use in network labs like EVE-NG : windows 7qcow2