Thank you Peter,
You have clarified a lot of what I have already noticed - I have seen threads where others tried to go down this path and then were steered to a cross-compile from Linux to Windows. I'm not necessarily moving on to anything easier unless it becomes necessary to do so as a reference point - which as you have suggested might be one way to troubleshoot this particular task - mostly now because I'm enjoying this challenge - I think that it should not only be possible to do this but that it should be documented in such a way that a relative novice can do it - and so I'm going to see if I can cross the finish line and then roll out the map so anyone else in the near future who might want to use the instructions can do it - probably in another 18 mo. what I write will be outdated but this is how things go - and perhaps no one else will even use it - but QEMU has a wonderful reach across popular Windows, Macintosh, and Linux Operating systems, has a wonderful community feel, and can be used to create really wonderful small-footprint pairings of virtualizer and system which for all three reasons make it exactly what I'm looking for. By starting with the hardest platform first and not "cheating" by cross-compiling it into it - I'm throwing myself into the learning and its really interesting already to see how a marriage of gnu tools and windows looks like and functions - Like I said I enjoy the challenge and while I am figuring it out it seems like it doesn't hurt to milk others for their experience in this area and path. Thanks for the advice - I think you gave a nice concise description of what I'm doing and the challenge of doing it this way and why this is a difficult way to go about an otherwise simple thing. So I am continuing on with this attempt if anyone has anything to add on advice, and especiall if anyone actually done this in the last 18 mo.