On the Linux side of the house, virt-manager is pretty great, though it leans much harder into KVM, so you don't necessarily get all the exotic architecture support of QEMU built in.
QtEmu for Windows gets you there, but it's very much so an API frontend, so if you're looking for simple from a choices perspective, this ain't it (though you might figure out your sane defaults and go from there).
Since you mentioned Fusion though, I'm guessing you're a Mac user, and UTM might be the ticket for you. The project started as a side-loadable/jailbroken device iOS VM system, but the project also makes a macOS app as well. https://mac.getutm.app/
This works both on Intel and Apple Silicon Macs, though in order to get virtualization acceleration, it's best to run workloads built for your native architecture (ARM on AS, x86(_64) on Intel).
> On the Linux side of the house, virt-manager is pretty great, though it leans much harder into KVM, so you don't necessarily get all the exotic architecture support of QEMU built in.
That's kind of funny because I end up accidentally creating non-KVM machines with virt-manager all the time...
QtEmu for Windows gets you there, but it's very much so an API frontend, so if you're looking for simple from a choices perspective, this ain't it (though you might figure out your sane defaults and go from there).
Since you mentioned Fusion though, I'm guessing you're a Mac user, and UTM might be the ticket for you. The project started as a side-loadable/jailbroken device iOS VM system, but the project also makes a macOS app as well. https://mac.getutm.app/ This works both on Intel and Apple Silicon Macs, though in order to get virtualization acceleration, it's best to run workloads built for your native architecture (ARM on AS, x86(_64) on Intel).