Unless the default changed one of these last few years, I'm pretty sure if you don't use `-enable-kvm` then qemu emulates the selected architecture. That's prob

Unless the default changed one of these last few years, I'm pretty sure if you don't use `-enable-kvm` then qemu emulates the selected architecture. That's probably why it doesn't need root. EDIT: Nevermind, `-enable-kvm` also doesn't need root. I'm not sure what libvirt uses root for.