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Last active November 5, 2022 20:32 — forked from plembo/RPIwithQEMU.md
Emulating a Raspberry Pi with QEMU

NB

  • This is just my own notes for me trying the same thing in the future (and probably make the exact same mistake as I did today!), so please do not rely on this too much ...
  • This is a fork of a gist by plembo. Check out there for original instructions. Sorry, but I think not much changes have been made, meaning probably you might not have any particular reason to prefer this gist over the original one :(
  • I tried this on my Alter Linux platform, so I believe most of the notes here would apply to any Arch-based distros (not sure though).

Emulating a Raspberry Pi with QEMU

Goal: Emulate a Raspberry Pi with QEMU in order to run the Raspbian O/S (based on Debian Linux).

The current setup is not ideal. For one thing, the maximum RAM allowed using the "versatile-pb" firmware is