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Microsoft does directly provide Windows 11 as a ready-to-run QCOW2 file. They provide ISO files and VHDX images for Hyper-V. To get a QCOW2, Alex had two official routes:

QCOW2 (QEMU Copy-On-Write) allows for thin provisioning, meaning the virtual disk file only occupies the space actually used by the guest OS rather than its full allocated size (e.g., a 128GB disk might only use 20GB on your host initially). windows 11 qcow2 download

Alex searched for and found two kinds of results: Microsoft does directly provide Windows 11 as a