I launch virt-manager, it uses qemu but I don't launch Qemu directly. When I've used it in other distro, Devuan, all the packages including qemu get installed. Had to install qemu after virt-manager in Beta. No issues. The beauty of virt-manager is you can configure hardware under details. I've been using the Beta on a bare metal install and used virt-manager to run the Beta on the Beta and used the VM to produce the manual for the Beta in Tutorials & Guides.