This post describes how you can build, install, and use QEMU on an Ubuntu machine. I basically refererenced http://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/Linux. The test has proceeded on an Ubuntu 18.04 server machine.
QEMU Build sudo apt install libglib2.0-dev libfdt-dev libpixman-1-dev zlib1g-dev \ libgtk-3-dev git clone git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu.git cd qemu git checkout v4.2.0 mkdir -p $HOME/qemu.sandbox/bin cd $HOME/qemu.sandbox/bin ../../qemu/configure --enable-debug --enable-gtk time make -j143 ./x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -L pc-bios Guest OS Install Get an Ubuntu server install image: