Quickemu

Quickly create and run highly optimised desktop virtual machines for Linux, macOS and Windows; with just two commands. You decide what operating system you want to run and Quickemu will figure out the best way to do it for you. For example:

quickget ubuntu-mate impish quickemu --vm ubuntu-mate-impish.conf

The original objective of the project was to enable quick testing of Linux distributions where the virtual machine configurations can be stored anywhere, such as external USB storage or your home directory, and no elevated permissions are required to run the virtual machines. Quickemu now also includes comprehensive support for macOS and Windows. Features

macOS Monterey, Big Sur, Catalina, Mojave & High Sierra Windows 8.1, 10 and 11 including TPM 2.0 Ubuntu and all the official Ubuntu flavours Debian (bullseye with all the official and non-free DE variants) Fedora & openSUSE (Leap, Tumbleweed, MicroOS) Alma Linux Linux Mint (Cinnamon, MATE, and XFCE), elementary OS, Pop!_OS Arch Linux, Kali,Garuda, ZorinOS & NixOS Oracle Linux and Rocky Linux Regolith Linux (Release 1.6 and latest 2.0.0 pre-release ) FreeBSD & OpenBSD Full SPICE support including host/guest clipboard sharing VirtIO-webdavd file sharing for Linux and Windows guests VirtIO-9p file sharing for Linux and macOS guests QEMU Guest Agent support; provides access to a system-level agent via standard QMP commands Samba file sharing for Linux, macOS and Windows guests (if smbd is installed on the host) VirGL acceleration USB device pass-through Smartcard pass-through Automatic SSH port forwarding to guests Network port forwarding Full duplex audio EFI (with or without SecureBoot) and Legacy BIOS boot Graphical user interfaces available

Quickemu is a wrapper for the excellent QEMU that attempts to automatically "do the right thing", rather than expose exhaustive configuration options.