> tried qemu, and spent many days trying to figure out the correct set of parameters It's really not that hard, once you get used to it. Or, if you rather not

> tried qemu, and spent many days trying to figure out the correct set of parameters It's really not that hard, once you get used to it. Or, if you rather not spend that precious time, there is a GUI tool that would configure those parameters for you: https://virt-manager.org/ https://virt-manager.org/ Bonus: once started with virt-manager, run "ps ax | grep qemu", et voila - you have your qemu parameters, ready to copy-paste, should you wish to run exact same VM later from a script, or something...