You overlooked the UTM app on the App Store (and open source available too), which wraps Apple Silicon virtualization excellently, or you can use Qemu (which I don't).

I used to use Asahi, but the sleep modes power drain was tedious.

With UTM, I install a latest Fedora ISO (declaring it a "Linux", which exposes the option to skip QEMU and use native Apple Silicon virtualization.

It's fantastic. I mention this only because it's been super useful, way better than Asahi, with minimal effort.