Windows 10qcow2

windows-10.qcow2

The air in Elias’s apartment was thick with the hum of a custom-built workstation and the smell of cooling solder. On his screen, a terminal window flickered, waiting for the final command to breathe life into his latest project: a perfectly tuned Windows 10 virtual environment, contained entirely within a single file.

• Pros: Native Linux integration, snapshots, thin provisioning, free.
• Cons: Requires learning QEMU/KVM, VirtIO driver setup has a learning curve.

From VMDK (VMware)

Using virt-manager (GUI):

Method 2: Using VirtualBox