Windows 8 Qcow2 💫 💎

What are you using? (e.g., Virtual Machine Manager/virt-manager, Proxmox VE, or raw command line?) What is the host operating system ? Are you running standard Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 ?

: With the disk ready, use QEMU to boot from your Windows 8 ISO: windows 8 qcow2

QCOW2 images support a feature called "Discard." When you delete a file inside the Windows 8 VM, the QCOW2 format can signal the host filesystem to reclaim that space. This prevents the image from growing indefinitely. What are you using