Windows 7 Qcow2: A Comprehensive Guide to Virtualization
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This will create a new Qcow2 image called `windows7.qcow2` with a size of 50 GB.
# On the physical Windows 7 machine, boot a Linux live USB.
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/stdout bs=1M status=progress | ssh user@host "qemu-img convert -f raw -O qcow2 - windows7.qcow2"
<driver name='qemu' type='qcow2' cache='writeback' io='threads'/>
Managing a Windows 7 Qcow2 Image
QEMU provides several tools for managing Qcow2 images, including: