Support #929
Updated by Daniel Curtis about 6 years ago
This is a guide on virtualizing an ARM based operating system, in this case Raspbian for the Raspberry Pi 3, Raspbian, on an x86_64 Arch Linux system. h2. Prepare the environment * Make sure the system is up to date: <pre> pacman -Syu </pre> * Install a few dependencies: <pre> pacman -S git base-devel </pre> h3. Install ARM toolchain: * Clone the toolchain repo (using @--depth 1@ will decrease the overall download size by 400MB): <pre> mkdir ~/git && cd ~/git git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/raspberrypi/tools.git </pre> * Add the tools to your path: <pre> echo 'export PATH=$PATH:~/git/tools/arm-bcm2708/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-raspbian/bin' >> ~/.bash_profile </pre> * Source the @.bash_profile@: <pre> source ~/.bash_profile </pre> h2. Install Qemu * Install qemu and the extra architectures: <pre> pacman -S git qemu qemu-arch-extra wget </pre> h3. Compile Latest Kernel * Download the qemu-rpi-kernel repo: <pre> cd ~/git git clone https://github.com/dhruvvyas90/qemu-rpi-kernel.git </pre> h3. Prepare Raspbian * Change into the qemu-rpi-kernel/tools directory: <pre> cd ~/git/qemu-rpi-kernel/tools </pre> * Modify the kernel compile script to use Arch commands: <pre> sed -i.bak -e's/sudo\ apt-get\ update/sudo\ pacman\ -Syu/g' -e's/sudo\ apt-get\ install\ git\ libncurses5-dev\ gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf/sudo\ pacman\ -S\ git/g' build-kernel-qemu </pre> * Edit the build-kernel-qemu script: <pre> vi build-kernel-qemu </pre> #* And comment out all COMMIT versions except for the desired commit, and turn USE_GIT off also remove the exit command before the makes: <pre> #COMMIT=6820d0cbec64cfee481b961833feffec8880111e #COMMIT=raspberrypi-kernel_1.20171029-1 #COMMIT="" COMMIT=raspberrypi-kernel_1.20180313-1 #USE_GIT=1 #exit </pre> * Run the build script: <pre> ./build-kernel-qemu </pre> * Download the latest raspbian image (1.7G): <pre> mkdir ~/raspbian && cd ~/raspbian wget http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2018-03-14/2018-03-13-raspbian-stretch.zip </pre> h2. Resources * https://azeria-labs.com/emulate-raspberry-pi-with-qemu/ * http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2018-03-14/ * https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/releases * https://github.com/dhruvvyas90/qemu-rpi-kernel