Well, I got past being dazzled by QEMU machine config files years ago. They're actually rather simple. Once you grasp dealing with QEMU at that level its a sh

Well, I got past being dazzled by QEMU machine config files years ago. They're actually rather simple. Once you grasp dealing with QEMU at that level its a short, and possibly dubious step, to just CLI-ing everything. The GUI tools are efficient for picking up on new capabilities as QEMU/KVM evolves with time. I've been known to just start VMs from the CLI directly, for experimental purposes. The tooling everyone uses (Proxmox, virt-*, etc.) obscures the fact that spawning a VM is just a command with a bunch of switches. I suppose that familiarity for me came from using QEMU to emulate other archs on x86 for embedded development purposes: launching ARM VMs, for example.