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• A: qemu-fast is (according to Fabrice) a somewhat obsolete way to improve speed when running Linux under Linux. It requires a patched guest system, meaning you have to patch the kernel you want to start with qemu-fast. As there’s no way to patch Windows in a similar way, you can’t use qemu-fast for Windows guests.
