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github.com/cirruslabs/tart is a command-line tool which makes this whole VM thing very easy on MacOS starting with Ventura.

Is there an equivalent of this for Intel Macs?

The above framework (Virtualization.framework) provided by Apple is not restricted to AArch64, it's supported on Intel Macs.

I'm honestly not sure why a CLI tool would make that restriction, or if it even is a true restriction rather than an error in documentation.

In any case, vftool is another CLI and works fine on Intel Macs, but has not yet been updated for graphical VMs.

Linux with GUI is only available on MacOS 13 and higher, I guess.

GitHub has a fair few projects which can do Linux VMs with command-line access to the guest.