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This error indicates a STOP: Inaccessible Boot Device . It occurs if you switch the hypervisor storage bus to VirtIO or SCSI before installing the underlying Windows VirtIO drivers. To fix this, change the hypervisor disk controller back to IDE temporarily, boot into Windows, install the viostor drivers manually via Device Manager, shut down, and flip the controller back to VirtIO . Image Size Inflation

: During the "Where do you want to install Windows?" step, no drives will appear if you used if=virtio . Click Load Driver , browse the VirtIO CD, and select the viostor/w7 folder for your architecture (x86 or amd64). windows 7 qcow2 top

The -c flag enables compression. This can shrink a 100GB sparse image to 30-40GB without data loss. This error indicates a STOP: Inaccessible Boot Device

: Use -cpu host to pass the host's CPU features directly to the guest. Image Size Inflation : During the "Where do