Any chance you could be more specific? It looks like most of the internet has decided that qemu is too scary to use directly and therefore folks tend to use li

Any chance you could be more specific? It looks like most of the internet has decided that qemu is too scary to use directly and therefore folks tend to use libvirt and various helper utilities. I keep trying them and find them unpleasant and insufficiently useful. So I use systemd units for autostart (as described in the Arch Linux wiki page) and call qemu from there. I often use bridged networking and often pass through PCIe devices (typically GPUs, NVMe disks, and NICs).