[PLUG] QEMU Win 7 Install Error

[Dick Steffens]

I'm working on setting up Win7 on QEMU on my Ubuntu MATE 16.04 machine. 
(I have a legal DVD.) I've followed the instructions at:

https://github.com/hpaluch/hpaluch.github.io/wiki/Install-Windows7-on-KVM-Qemu

I got through all the setup stuff and clicked on Begin installation. The 
Win7 install started fine, but stopped with this error message:

> Error continue install: Cannot access storage file 
> '/var/lib/libvirt/images/win7-80GB.qcow2' (as uid:64055, gid:133): No 
> such file or directory
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/create.py", line 2339, in 
> _check_install_status
>     virtinst_guest.continue_install()
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/guest.py", line 524, in 
> continue_install
>     start_xml, final_xml, is_initial, False)
>   File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtinst/guest.py", line 420, in 
> _create_guest
>     dom.create()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/libvirt.py", line 1035, in create
>     if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed', 
> dom=self)
> libvirtError: Cannot access storage file 
> '/var/lib/libvirt/images/win7-80GB.qcow2' (as uid:64055, gid:133): No 
> such file or directory

/var/lib/libvirt/images exists but is empty. Am I supposed to create 
win7-80GB.qcow2 and run the install again? And should it be a file or a 
directory?

Has anyone run into this before? It's mostly Greek to me.

Thanks for any advice.

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens