I guess I should go invest some time learning KVM so that I can spin up VMs on my home computer until I can get some angel to toss me some money so that I can i

I guess I should go invest some time learning KVM so that I can spin up VMs on my home computer until I can get some angel to toss me some money so that I can invest in some hardware. All I have to do is learn how to spin allocate space on a disk drive to a virtual disk, should I use RAW, QCOW2, something else? I should probably figure out how to install an OS within this "container." What's that honey, you need to do the budget? Hang on, I'm still working on my job. Man, I seriously have to learn some sysadmin to get this thing up and running on my commodity box. Wait a tick ...