https://documentation.suse.com/sles/15-SP1/html/SLES-all/cha-libvirt-config-virsh.html

For KVM, QEMU, and some other AMD64 virtual machine systems that use QEMU code 
you have a choice of pc-i440fx-5.0 (default) and pc-q35-5.0 for the machine 
type.  The command "kvm -L help" gives you a list of machine types.  The above 
URL is the only one I could find mentioning the difference, it says that "q35 
is an Intel* chipset and includes PCIe, supports up to 12 USB ports, and has 
support for SATA and IOMMU".

https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/latest-virtio/

I have the virtual IO drivers for storage (included in Linux by default and 
available for Windows at the above URL).  I use the curses terminal for Linux 
VMs and am experimenting with VNC for Windows VMs so don't need USB keyboard 
and mouse.  I don't need passthrough PCIe and the IOMMU only matters if you 
are running a hypervisor not for a guest.  So would there be any benefit in 
using q35?

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