Windows 7 Lite Qcow2

The -c flag enables compression, which is highly effective for textual OS files.

Standard Windows 7 doesn't have VirtIO drivers. Inject them during your build process. For networking and disk I/O, virtio-win drivers dramatically speed up QCOW2 access. windows 7 lite qcow2

Or use qemu-img:

In the flickering glow of a basement CRT monitor, Elias found the file he’d been hunting for in the deepest corners of an archived forum: Win7_Lite_Final.qcow2 . The -c flag enables compression, which is highly