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Install virt-manager, qemu and all dependencies

From terminal:

sudo pacman -S --needed virt-manager qemu-desktop libvirt edk2-ovmf dnsmasq iptables-nft

For TPM support:

sudo pacman -S --asdeps swtpm

Enable and start service

sudo systemctl enable libvirtd.service
sudo systemctl start libvirtd.service

Add user to libvirt, libvirt-qemu and kvm groups to use the system-level virtual machines (qemu:///system)

sudo usermod -a -G libvirt,libvirt-qemu,kvm $USER

Note

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1. You don't need this step to run system-level virtual machines. However, virt-manager will prompt for sudoer's password when launch if the user is not in the libvirt group
2. You can also create user-level virtual machines (qemu:///session) and use without sudoer's privelige. However, some features such as VirtioFS file sharing may be unavailable in qemu:///session