Glad you got it working!  You can also refrain from prevent booting from the CD 
by changing the boot order.  My system doesn't boot from the CD unless a key is 
pressed, but your suggestion is a good one.  

The one advantage to keeping the nonfunctional qxl driver after installation is 
that if you need access to your VM and synergy or whatever isn't working, the 
black graphics screen will still give you keyboard access from the host when 
the host mouse is over it: occasionally helpful if you use Synergy and are 
doing a boot into Safe mode or something.

> On Jul 7, 2016, at 4:43 AM, Thomas Lindroth <thomas.lindr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I figured out the problem. After installing the machine I left the win 7
> install cd attached to the vm. The machine would always boot from the cd
> and display a message like "press any key to boot from cd". Without
> pressing any key it would chainload the real operating system.
> 
> That chainloading only worked if the qxl device was attached. I don't
> know why but it doesn't really matter.
> 
> If someone else is trying to install win 7 with OVMF here are the
> correct steps.
> 1. Add both the real gpu and qxl
> 2. Install windows using the virtual qxl display
> 3. Install graphic drivers
> 4. Remove both qxl and the install cd
> 
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