Virtual Machine - Which VM for trying Guix System? Any other advice?

The Guix manual implicitly suggests using QEMU, do you agree? Why or why not?

Do you have any other advice for how to create a sandbox to try guix system? I’m coming from Ubuntu and want to make heavy use of emacs if possible.

Thanks!

QEMU is fine and the standard method on Linux.

If your’e on Ubuntu, you’re most likely on Gnome and you should be easily able to run the image with a tool called Boxes (also uses QEMU internally).