(Solved note:
This thread solved Qemu access to a Windows 7 virtual machine on a very new laptop, thanks to the forum contributors. And it did so in three separate ways, all of which which had been problematic for me. They were: USB thumbdrive (sneakernet) file access, FTP, and Samba shared folders. The problems encountered and the solutions may be of interest to others with very new equipment.....)
F-96 CE rev 4
Huge kernel: huge-6.1.8-fossapup64 from https://archive.org/download/Puppy_Linux_Huge-Kernels
HP Envy Laptop 17t-cr100
Aqemu 0.9.2
KVM
I've spent a fruitless half-day trying to get my Win 7 Qemu install to share a folder with the host operating system. Qemu Win 7 installation runs fine. I've tried setting up Samba on host using Samba Simple Management. It seems to work and puts a host shared folder on the network. I'm using /root/shared as a test folder.
I have not been able to see that from the guest system -- possibly I'm setting that up wrong. Help would be appreciated.