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Feature Idea: emulate VMs with different architectures using QEMU
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Description
It might be convenient to have a "cloud" similar to lxd that uses `qemu` directly to emulate a different architecture. This would allow us to write and run integration tests for arm64 machines locally on x86_64 machines.
Some downsides are:
* performance penalty from emulation - is it so slow that it's not even worth it?
* I don't know of a convenient wrapper for this similar to lxd, so we'd have to use qemu for a particular arch directly and figure out how to bootstrap an SSH connection. I'm also not sure what the best way to query images would be.
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