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Emulation is the process of setting up one machine to act like another. This normally involves setting up virtualizers or emulators.

Emulation is the process of setting up one machine to act like another. This normally involves setting up virtualizers or emulators.

Emulating the Raspberry Pi is possible through QEMU , a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer. At least version 2.6 is needed for full system emulation of the Raspberry Pi.

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How to run Raspbian on VirtualBox?

I have tried Debian on VirtualBox and would like to check out Raspbian. How do I install Raspbian on VirtualBox?
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Emulation on a Linux PC

How can I connect an SD card containing a Raspberry Pi OS to my Linux PC, and boot the OS in an emulator? Why won't VMWare work? What are the limitations of this method? Related: Emulation on a Windows PC
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Emulation on a Windows PC

How can I emulate the Raspberry Pi on Windows? Related: Emulation on a Linux PC
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Can I emulate x86 to run Windows 95?

In a comment to another question about Windows, somebody brought up a good point, Raspberry Pis have the horsepower to run older games. It just so happens that I have a favorite older game from the win95 era that I'd like to give a go but the…
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Docker on Raspbian?

How would I go about running Docker (https://www.docker.io) on Raspbian? The instructions I've found are either a very manual process based on Raspbian but with a very old kernel that seemed to require a bunch of patches. There's also the well-known…
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Playstation Emulation

Does anyone know if it is possible to get the PCSXR (Playstation 1) emulator to work on the Raspberry Pi? On both Debian Squeeze and Wheezy, running any game on it with the xvideo plugin just gives. RGB & YUV not found. Quitting. I presume this…
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Is mame ARM compatible?

I'm still waiting on my Raspberry Pi, but when I get it, will it be possible to run Mame on it? I'm not concerned about how it will perform, but I've got my mind set on a project and want to know if it will work in the first place.
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How to successfully emulate RPI on OSX?

I followed this guide to emulate RPI on OSX via VirtualBox and it works. Now I'd like to simplify things a bit since this solution involves running debian in a virtual machine just to run qemu on top of. I googled for guides on how to setup qemu…
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Is there a way to alter the raspberry image that appears during boot?

A glint-box community member recently asked me if there was a way to replace the raspberry image that appears in the top-left corner of the screen during boot to something more NES-centric, such as a 1-UP mushroom. Anyone know where this image is…
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How does speed of QEMU emulation compare to a real Raspberry Pi board?

I've managed to following Jivings answer to set up QEMU on my Ubuntu machine with the default Debian image, though I have had to use arm1136-r2 instead of arm1176. What is the best way to compare the speed the emulated processor is running at? Doing…
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Cannot Emulate Raspberry Pi using Qemu: Kernel Panic

I am trying to follow various guides on the Internet in order to emulate Raspberry Pi on my Fedora 22 machine. I have found this question: Emulating raspbian with QEMU and used it to find kernel-qemu to grab a kernel. I downloaded…
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Can I emulate x86 CPU to run Teamspeak 3 server?

Reading different posts and Can I emulate x86 to run Windows 95? it seems to be possible to some extent to simulate x86 CPU. In my special case I want to run a Teamspeak server, which isn't provided for ARM at the moment. Is it possible to emulate…
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Virtual machine from SD card

I'm currently trying to make some changes to my Raspbmc Raspberry Pi which I'm continually screwing up. For this reason I've invested in a second SD card. This is my 'test' card, with which I make sure changes I've made are working before doing them…
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What is the "Hotkey Enable" button supposed to be?

I have installed RetroPie on a new Raspberry Pi and went to set up a controller. After pressing all the buttons as requested, I was prompted to select something for "Hotkey Enable". What is this supposed to represent? I'm all out of buttons on my…
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How Can I Emulate An x86 CPU on a Raspberry Pi with Qemu?

NOTE: I am aware that this question has been asked before HERE, but after having followed that question step by step, troubleshooted on my own and having done plenty of research on the internet to try and find a solution, I have been unable to run…
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