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It's just like a physical machine, except launched in a window from your desktop (or wherever you put the VM launcher). And yes, if you set it up correctly, it saves its state when it shuts down.
I use
virt-manager, which is just a GUI on top of KVM/qcow. Works really well. It's available for pretty much every Linux distro.Thanks, I'll look into it!