as development environments for various hypervisors (VMware, Hyper-V, VirtualBox, and Parallels). Conversion Required
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All changes will now be written to my-working-vm.qcow2 , while the original win10.qcow2 stays pristine.
Convert the file using qemu-img . Run the following command in your terminal:
The most reliable source for a pre-configured Windows 10 VM is often the Microsoft Edge Developer website. While Microsoft does not directly offer .qcow2 images, they provide virtual machines for various platforms, including VirtualBox ( .vmdk disk). A known and reliable workaround is to download the VirtualBox version and convert its disk to qcow2 , as reported by several users. This method leverages an official, working image directly from Microsoft, bypassing unreliable third-party sources.