timdoug's tidbits

Microsoft distributes a freely available image, but there are a few steps necessary for it to work with QEMU.

Download the VirtualBox image and unzip.
The .ova file is a tarball; extract.
The .vmdk file is compressed, in a format to which QEMU can't write, resulting in Could not write to allocated cluster for streamOptimized errors. Convert to qcow2 with qemu-img.
Start a modern system, using Hypervisor.framework, 4GB of RAM, and userland networking forwarding the RDP port as the VGA driver is functional but suboptimal:
qemu-system-x86_64 -machine q35 -accel hvf -m 4096 -nic user,hostfwd=tcp:127.0.0.1:3389-:3389 -hda WinDev2003Eval-disk001.qcow2