Windows 7qcow2 !!link!! – Complete

Windows 7 QCOW2 — Overview and Practical Guide

• QCOW2 has more overhead than raw images; use raw for maximum throughput if space/snapshots aren’t needed.
• Enable caching and virtio drivers in the VM for best IO performance:

  To Proxmox VE

  : A graphical alternative to the command line for managing your QEMU command for running this image after the installation is finished?

  2. Creating a Windows 7 qcow2 Image

  Pro tip:

  Use virsh if you manage via libvirt: virsh snapshot-create-as windows7 clean_state --disk-only windows 7qcow2

  4.3 Memory Ballooning