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QEMU (short for "Quick EMUlator") is a free and open-source hosted virtual machine monitor that performs hardware virtualization.

QEMU is a hosted virtual machine monitor: It emulates central processing units through dynamic binary translation and provides a set of device models, enabling it to run a variety of unmodified guest operating systems. It also provides an accelerated mode for supporting a mixture of binary translation (for kernel code) and native execution (for user code), in the same fashion as VMware Workstation and VirtualBox do. QEMU can also be used purely for CPU emulation for user-level processes, allowing applications compiled for one architecture to be run on another.

QEMU began emulating the complete Raspberry Pi with version 2.6. Previuosly , the slightly incomatible "versatilepb" platform had to be used.

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How to emulate Raspberry Pi in QEMU?

A few years ago, people were saying they were able to emulate a Raspberry Pi 2 or 3 in QEMU. However as of late 2020, I am unable to do so. Can anyone let me know what the correct command line arguments are to emulate a Raspberry Pi 3 or 4 in…
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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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Emulating raspbian with QEMU

I'm trying to emulate raspbian on QEMU and there're plenty of guides available on internet. However, every guide points to download qemu-linux kernel from link https://xecdesign.com/downloads/linux-qemu/kernel-qemu however, this link is dead and I…
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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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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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How to run a Raspiban in QEMU

How do you run a standard Raspbian image in QEMU? I'm following the instructions in this wiki, but the first step is failing. I downloaded the kernal kernel-qemu-4.1.13-jessie and the Raspbian Jessie Lite image, but when I run: qemu-system-arm…
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Emulate Raspberry Pi zero W with Qemu failed due to missing dtb

I am trying to emulate a Raspberry Pi zero W with Qemu based on an image I used on a real Raspberry Pi zero W. The command I am using is: sudo qemu-system-arm \ …
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QEMU Raspbian on OS X

Sorry for bothering folks: I tried a lot of instructions to get a Raspbian image running on QEMU (2.0.0 via homebrew) on OS X (10.9.3). I downloaded several versions of Raspbian but always the first boot fails. qemu-system-arm -kernel ../kernel-qemu…
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what does -append field work in QEMU

I saw this command to make image qemu-system-arm -kernel kernel-qemu -cpu arm1176 -m 256 -M versatilepb \ -no-reboot -serial stdio -append "root=/dev/sda2 panic=1" \ -hda 2013-05-25-wheezy-raspbian.img Here the -append field gives me some…
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How to emulate raspberry pi 2 on Ubuntu 14.04 PC?

Here I got an image of Raspberry Pi (re-designed). Let's call it pi2-16gb.img Emulate ARM Raspberry Pi 2 model B v1.1 on a Ubuntu PC Now I want to emulate it before inserting it to a Pi 2 physically. I created a startup script start_arm_pi.sh as…
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Emulating with Qemu: why the extra kernel?

Complete beginner question: why do I have to pass an extra kernel binary when running e.g. a Debian image on an emulated Raspberry Pi? So far all the documentations state that the image files are the equivalent of a mass storage device, so if not…
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Kernel not updating on Raspbian under QEMU

I'm trying to update my kernel to the latest version. apt is updated and upgraded, and rpi-update finishes without error. However when I reboot, I'm still running the old kernel. Any ideas? $ uname -a Linux raspberrypi 3.10.26+ #2 Fri Jan 17…
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Is it possible to get the state of the LEDs and GPIOs in a QEMU emulation like the HDMI and audio?

I've gotten QEMU emulation working with: Emulation on a Linux PC On that Linux based example, I can see the HDMI output on a window, and hear sounds from the speaker. Now I started playing with bare metal, and the hello world is to blink the OK…
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raspberry emulation / nested virtualization - issue when booting with qemu-system-arm

I'm trying to emulate the raspberry pi with a virtualbox using Ubuntu. I've followed this link and also this one I've been able to install the requested qemu package, I've downloaded the raspbian image and I've also downloaded the QEMU-Ready…
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Has anyone managed to run Raspberry Pi 3 with KVM enabled?

I have seen some tutorials for Raspberry pi 2, but they are either a bit old, or do not work on the 3 model. I would like basically to run QEMU with KVM, for a x86 guest, in order for it to perform at a satisfactory level, right now it is very slow.…
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