I happen to work on a system-wide profiler[1] that is eBPF-based, and what we do is load our bpf programs on various kernels[2] using qemu. This is important as the jit and verifier change significantly across kernel versions and we want to make sure we maintain compatibility.

[1] https://github.com/parca-dev/parca-agent

[2] https://github.com/parca-dev/parca-agent/blob/54434c02773a8a...