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+# Windows 10 VM with Qemu
+
+## Create installer iso
+
+mkisofs -o ~/Downloads/win-install.iso /tmp/windows-installers/
+
+## Snapshot qcow2 storage
+
+```bash
+# list
+qemu-img snapshot -l win10.qcow2
+
+# create 
+qemu-img snapshot -c $SNAPSHOT_NAME $DISK_IMAGE
+
+# apply
+qemu-img snapshot -a $SNAPSHOT_NAME $DISK_IMAGE
+
+# delete
+qemu-img snapshot -d \
+  $SNAPSHOT_NAME \
+  $DISK_IMAGE
+
+```
+
+## Setup
+
+Install and configure windows as normal to start. Boot into the installation and finish the setup.
+
+## Auto resize display
+
+1. Ensure the video device is set to "QXL" on the host
+2. Download [virt-win-guest-tools](https://github.com/virtio-win/virtio-win-pkg-scripts) and install on guest
+3. Download [spice-guest-tools](https://www.spice-space.org/download.html#windows-binaries) and install on guest
+4. Shutdown the guest machine
+5. view -> Scale Display -> Auto resize VM with window
+6. Start the guest machine, it should now auto resize
+
+## virtio network driver
+
+1. Download [virt-win-guest-tools](https://github.com/virtio-win/virtio-win-pkg-scripts) and install on guest
+2. Shutdown the guest machine
+3. Change the network device model to virtio
+4. Start the guest machine
+
+## virtio boot disk
+
+1. Attempted virt-win-guest-tools install but boots with boot_device_not_found error