followed by "the rest of the owl," since I doubt very seriously that debian-12-nocloud-arm64 boots up docker or containerd and your cited command does not mount

followed by "the rest of the owl," since I doubt very seriously that debian-12-nocloud-arm64 boots up docker or containerd and your cited command does not mount $HOME in qemu such that $(docker run -v $HOME/work:/work debian:12) would do something reasonable from within the VM If you were interested, Brew also offers "opt" links to avoid hard-coding version numbers into paths: -drive if=pflash,format=raw,file=/opt/homebrew/opt/qemu/share/qemu/edk2-aarch64-code.fd \ and if one happens to be already running with $(brew shellenv) then -drive if=pflash,format=raw,file=${HOMEBREW_PREFIX}/opt/qemu/share/qemu/edk2-aarch64-code.fd \ will allow the script to work on both arm and x86_64 setups