By default, QEMU uses emulation which will be slow. Qemu can also use an "accelerator" such as KVM. See https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/invocation.htm

By default, QEMU uses emulation which will be slow. Qemu can also use an "accelerator" such as KVM. See https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/invocation.html#hxtool-0 https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/invocation.html#hxto... e.g. I can do this on my Raspberry Pi 4 running 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS. qemu-system-aarch64 \ -M virt,accel=kvm -cpu host -m 2G -smp 2 -nographic \ -bios /usr/share/qemu-efi-aarch64/QEMU_EFI.fd \ -cdrom alpine-virt-3.12.0-aarch64.iso