There's your problem. I can boot a tinyconfig Linux kernel that's 600K in QEMU using the microvm machine type in milliseconds. A basic Windows install is tens o

There's your problem. I can boot a tinyconfig Linux kernel that's 600K in QEMU using the microvm machine type in milliseconds. A basic Windows install is tens of gigabytes, and doesn't have the capability of being stripped down to the barebones essentials.