QEMU how to speed up?

Question

macOS

qemu - it seems like it should be faster according to the articles
I decided to test

the catalina macos
brew install qemu -installed
XP installed for the test (it was installed for half a day - on paralell / virtualbox for about 10 minutes)

then after reading about accelerations I add qemu-system-x86_64 -hda xp.qcow - m 2048 -enable-kvm
I get - qemu-system-x86_64: invalid accelerator kvm (google bans answers to such a request)))

errors are the same on iMac / Air
how to speed up qemu?

Answer 1

invalid accelerator kvm

And can't work on macOS.
KVM is for Linux only.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS

macOS uses the XNU kernel, which is based on the Mach microkernel and contains code developed by Apple, as well as code from NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD.

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVM

KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a software solution that provides virtualization in a Linux environment...
The KVM software consists of a loadable kernel module (called kvm.ko) that provides a basic virtualization service,...