QEMU-KVM Install Guest VM Sep 28th, 2015 12:00 am Create a qcow2 disk image 1 qemu-img create -f qcow2 ./win7.img 10G Install OS on the new image 1 qemu-system-xxx -hda win7.img -boot d -cdrom ./instal-image.iso -m 512 Boot after install 1 qemu-system-xxx -hda win7.img -m 512 The above instructions only use most basic options to make it happen