After a lot of research, I've discovered the simplest way to get a QEMU RISC-V Linux image running. This one will run Debian and it is far smaller than the Ubuntu one too so it will consume less memory on your main Linux (where you run QEMU).
The readme contains the QEMU command that you can use to start the virtual environment, with detailed instructions and the necessary files provided in the downloaded zip file.
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