Windows 8.1 Qcow2

and disabling background tasks like Windows Defender to mitigate low write speeds (often reported as low as 10 MB/s without optimization). Super User from a database like IEEE or a pre-built disk image for research purposes? An Analysis of Desktop-as-a-Service Implementations

qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 2048 -cpu host -smp 2 \ -drive file=windows8.1.qcow2,format=qcow2,if=virtio \ -cdrom win8.1.iso -boot d \ -vga qxl -display spice-app \ -netdev user,id=net0 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=net0 windows 8.1 qcow2

VirtIO provides paravirtualized I/O for disk and network, drastically improving speed. and disabling background tasks like Windows Defender to

qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b windows8.1.qcow2 windows8.1-snapshot1.qcow2 id=net0 -device virtio-net-pci