podman's been great for me on macOS for testing stuff quick; which earlier used to need a whole limactl[3]/virt thing.

you can set it up with qemu-user-static for --platform linux/amd64; i don't remember which i exactly used, or if official docs have been updated for it but looked something like [1]

there is one sneaky bug in qemu that breaks uv [2] for cross-platform targets so i keep having to fall back to lima for that, but great otherwise.

[1]: https://www.itix.fr/blog/qemu-user-static-with-podman/ [2]: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/16024 , https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/work_items/3130 [3]: https://lima-vm.io/