jfrancais Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 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? 1 Quote Link to comment
CHBMB Posted October 7, 2016 Share Posted October 7, 2016 Looks possible https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2013/09/03/an-arm-libvirt-guest-on-an-x86-64-host/ Quote Link to comment
andrewraynor Posted October 9, 2016 Share Posted October 9, 2016 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 Quote Link to comment
ken-ji Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 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 Quote Link to comment
METDeath Posted October 10, 2016 Share Posted October 10, 2016 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! Quote Link to comment
andrewraynor Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 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? Quote Link to comment
SpaceInvaderOne Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 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. Quote Link to comment
f3dora Posted October 11, 2016 Share Posted October 11, 2016 I am interested in Raspberry Pi support as well! It would be really useful for testing. Quote Link to comment
meep Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 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) Quote Link to comment
mgworek Posted October 28, 2016 Share Posted October 28, 2016 i am about to need a pi so i can control my whole house audio unit on my phone. this would be awesome Quote Link to comment
andrewraynor Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 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? Quote Link to comment
djvj Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 I also would love this. Sent from my SM-N910V using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
bubbl3 Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 Would love arm emulation, virtualized router ftw! Quote Link to comment
CHBMB Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 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. Quote Link to comment
bubbl3 Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 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 Quote Link to comment
billington.mark Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 ARM Visualization could maybe open the door for an Android TV VM too... hmm! Quote Link to comment
Johnny G Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 I'd definitely be in for this! Quote Link to comment
meep Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 How would that work with GPUs? Quote Link to comment
f3dora Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 How would that work with GPUs? Passthrough: Very unlikely. Virtual GPU (CPU/VNC): Should be possible. Quote Link to comment
andrewraynor Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 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 Quote Link to comment
eschultz Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 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 Quote Link to comment
CHBMB Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 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..... Quote Link to comment
SpaceInvaderOne Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 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! Quote Link to comment
f3dora Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 Do you really think anyone here wants to buy a "Steam Mop Floor Cleaner"? You are wasting bandwidth my friend. Quote Link to comment
mhardwick Posted December 18, 2016 Share Posted December 18, 2016 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. Quote Link to comment
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