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    Minishift on Qemu with Windows Hypervisor Platform accelerator support

Requirements

Windows 10 (updated after april 2018) with Hyper-V enabled.
Download the Qemu binary from https://shadycode.com/qemu-binaries-for-windows-64-bit-with-hyper-v-and-haxm-support/
Note: build instructions are here: https://shadycode.com/how-to-build-qemu-with-hyper-v-acceleration-msys2/
Usage

Administrator command prompt
C:\>qemu-system-x86_64.exe -smp 2 -m 4096 -cdrom minishift-centos7.iso -display sdl -machine q35 -accel whpx -net nic -net user,hostfwd=tcp::10022-:22
Windows Hypervisor Platform accelerator is operational

Login using root/centos:
C:\>ssh root@localhost -p 10022
The authenticity of host '[localhost]:10022 ([127.0.0.1]:10022)' can't be established.
ECDSA key fingerprint is SHA256:u6D3acmCLTvJPxZkGN/yeEpL14r1lrEY+BSotymAJ90.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?
Warning: Permanently added '[localhost]:10022' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.
root@localhost's password:
[root@localhost ~]# ip a show dev eth0
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 52:54:00:12:34:56 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 10.0.2.15/24 brd 10.0.2.255 scope global noprefixroute dynamic eth0
       valid_lft 86126sec preferred_lft 86126sec
    inet6 fec0::5054:ff:fe12:3456/64 scope site mngtmpaddr dynamic
       valid_lft 86127sec preferred_lft 14127sec
    inet6 fe80::5054:ff:fe12:3456/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

You could target this VM with minishift --vm-driver generic. Note: generate keys with ssh-keygen.