Have you tried Windows 7 with Fedora virtio drivers version 1.49? 
@David.Finster had mentioned the version newer causes drops in I/O 

On June 15, 2015 8:52:32 PM EDT, [email protected] wrote:
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>----- On Jun 15, 2015, at 4:43 PM, Nahum Shalman
>[email protected] wrote:
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>> On 06/15/2015 04:11 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>> > what is the current level of support for windows kvm guests in
>smartos?
>> >
>> > i have windows 7 running on joyent_20140221T042147Z and we have
>infrequent hiccups (completely losing network, for example). i plan to
>replace this with the > > latest smartos image and whichever version of
>windows server is recommended for use with smartos. i will be using the
>windows server kvm guest as an application > server accessed via
>terminal services. the guest os compatibility list
>(https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Guest+OS+Compatibility) is nearly
>2 years old.
>> >
>> > recommendations for the most stable version of windows server, plus
>any relevant hints (eg. driver versions) will be gladly accepted.
>thanks.
>
>> We have at least one each of Windows Server 2008 R2 (I think using 
>> virtio for network, but I'm not sure)
>> and Windows Server 2012 (I'm pretty sure we ended up using the
>emulated 
>> e1000 for network stability...)
>
>i have windows 7 using virtio, but i'm unhappy with it. are you happy
>with the stability and performance of the two VMs mentioned above? :)
>
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