Creating QEMU virtual W10 machine W/O a .ISO file

[nevj (Neville Jackson)]

@ex-Gooserider

How do I get the machine to be able to access at least some of the real machine file system, and / or how do I get files into and out of the VM?

I use NFS for that… but I think that requires a Linux guest? … does Win support NFS?
In virt-manager there are other options … see here

Communication between host and guest VM when using virt-manager

This is a joint post by @nevj and @Rosika and It reports on our collaborative investigations into the virt-manager package which uses qemu/KVM to run virtual machines inside a host Linux system. In particular we have looked at various ways of communicating between a guest Linux system running in a VM and its host Linux system. Our post consists of several ‘chapters’ each written in markdown and copied into itsFOSS as a series of separate replies. Contents virt-manager networking setup T…

I dont know about Vbox, but there should be options to mount a host filesystem… not sharing a filesystem… that is a pain.