Virtio is not qemu only. For example, the macOS virtualization framework on Apple Silicon Macs (and x86 machines IIRC) also provides virtio devices, other hypervisors.

An overview of the available devices can be found in this presentation:

https://crc.dev/blog/Container%20Plumbing%202023%20-%20vfkit...

you can try plain KVM its a bit more pain to get a system up tho compared to qemu which does a lot for you (--enable-kvm)