October 7, 20169 yr I currently have a few raspberry pi projects on the go. I maintain a few different images that I flip between PIs and test. I'm wondering if anyone has virtualized the hardware of a Pi in KVM/Unraid as to run Raspian,Rasplex,RetroPi and other projects? I'd like to be able to do all my setup/configuration/maintenance of the software in a virtualized environment so that when I'd done I could take that image I developed, drop it on an SD card, plug into a pi and off it goes. Does anyone have such experience configuring a Pi virtualized environment? is it even possible?
October 7, 20169 yr Looks possible https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2013/09/03/an-arm-libvirt-guest-on-an-x86-64-host/
October 9, 20169 yr Looks possible https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2013/09/03/an-arm-libvirt-guest-on-an-x86-64-host/ I would like to do this swell. i saw this post but don't really understand it. Can someone here make sense of it? https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=37386
October 10, 20169 yr This could be doable if LT would ship the qemu arm emulator as well. A quick peek only shows the binaries for x86_64 (not even i386) so on ly 64bit x86 VMs
October 10, 20169 yr I for one would love to run this as my LMS player is Raspberry Pi based and having one less device floating around would be awesome!
October 11, 20169 yr This could be doable if LT would ship the qemu arm emulator as well. A quick peek only shows the binaries for x86_64 (not even i386) so on ly 64bit x86 VMs so are there any plans for arm emulation?
October 11, 20169 yr This could be doable if LT would ship the qemu arm emulator as well. A quick peek only shows the binaries for x86_64 (not even i386) so on ly 64bit x86 VMs so are there any plans for arm emulation? Maybe if enough people want it.
October 11, 20169 yr I am interested in Raspberry Pi support as well! It would be really useful for testing.
October 25, 20169 yr Yes please. Am currently looking at OpenEnergyMonitor and while I can easily set up a Pi, it would be cool to try to emulate the emonbase in unRaid . (one less device)
October 28, 20169 yr i am about to need a pi so i can control my whole house audio unit on my phone. this would be awesome
December 7, 20169 yr This could be doable if LT would ship the qemu arm emulator as well. A quick peek only shows the binaries for x86_64 (not even i386) so on ly 64bit x86 VMs so are there any plans for arm emulation? @limetech do you have plans to add arm emulation?
December 7, 20169 yr Would love arm emulation, virtualized router ftw! If you want to virtualise a router why not use an x64 one like pfsense? No need to use ARM for that.
December 8, 20169 yr Would love arm emulation, virtualized router ftw! If you want to virtualise a router why not use an x64 one like pfsense? No need to use ARM for that. Virtualized ARM router VMs are very valuable for the kind of testing I do
December 9, 20169 yr How would that work with GPUs? Passthrough: Very unlikely. Virtual GPU (CPU/VNC): Should be possible.
December 10, 20169 yr How would that work with GPUs? Passthrough: Very unlikely. Virtual GPU (CPU/VNC): Should be possible. Doesnt look like anytime soon as no word from limetech
December 10, 20169 yr How would that work with GPUs? Passthrough: Very unlikely. Virtual GPU (CPU/VNC): Should be possible. Doesnt look like anytime soon as no word from limetech Maybe something to look in to for unRAID 6.4. Should be pretty simple to build ARM guest binary for QEMU. My original goal was to slim down the binaries for QEMU and that's why there is only x86-64bit support today but it sounds like there's some interest in ARM guests. I have a few Raspberry Pi projects I'm working on as well
December 10, 20169 yr Only thing to bear in mind with this, and i love a rasp pi as much as the next man, I got four of them, but I'm not sure I'd be willing to sacrifice a core of my server's processor to save the cost of a Pi though. Be useful for testing and I'm sure we could leverage it to make some more ARM docker builders.....
December 10, 20169 yr Only thing to bear in mind with this, and i love a rasp pi as much as the next man, I got four of them, but I'm not sure I'd be willing to sacrifice a core of my server's processor to save the cost of a Pi though. Be useful for testing and I'm sure we could leverage it to make some more ARM docker builders..... Yeah, I love the PI and like it because it's so small. I like to game stream to the pi from my gaming VM, when I'm in bed! So I can't replace that with emulation! But I would love to emulate a PI for fun!
December 12, 20169 yr Do you really think anyone here wants to buy a "Steam Mop Floor Cleaner"? You are wasting bandwidth my friend.
December 18, 20169 yr I would use it certainly. Having the ability to run disk images I create it from the sd card would be really useful. I have some projects that sync between each other, but I prefer to run a virtual one 24/7 at home thats running the same image.
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