On Sat, 3 Apr 2021 14:32:03 -0500
Richard Shaw wrote:

> Any tips? Or do I just need to buy a cheap SSD and format it EXT4 just for
> virtual machine images?

Did you install the virtual disk and network drivers from redhat
inside the Windows machine? If not, you are doing everything with
dead slow emulation. I get fairly decent performance with
my windows VM, but only by using the redhat drivers.