
Boot the VM and progress to the Windows 7 installation screen.
Let’s build a fresh Windows 7 virtual disk. We will assume you are on a Linux host with qemu-utils installed (Ubuntu/Debian: sudo apt install qemu-utils qemu-system-x86_64 ). windows 7 qcow2 file
qemu-system-x86_64 \ -machine pc-q35-2.9 \ -cpu host \ -smp 2 \ -m 4096 \ -drive file=win7.qcow2,format=qcow2,if=ide \ -cdrom Windows7.iso \ -cdrom virtio-win.iso \ -boot d \ -vga qxl \ -usb \ -device usb-tablet Boot the VM and progress to the Windows