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Navigate to the secondary CD-ROM drive containing the VirtIO drivers.

When the Windows 7 installation screen prompts you to choose a hard drive, . This is expected behavior because Windows 7 does not natively possess KVM VirtIO storage drivers. windows 7qcow2

# Use cache=none or writeback depending on workload -drive file=windows7.qcow2,format=qcow2,if=virtio,aio=native,cache=writeback Navigate to the secondary CD-ROM drive containing the

Using Virt-Manager (GUI for KVM) is the easiest way to deploy your new image. windows 7qcow2

# Offline qemu-img snapshot -a before_patches windows7.qcow2

Because Windows 7’s infrequent write patterns (once booted) work excellently with CoW, and snapshots allow you to roll back malware tests or driver experiments instantly.