February 10, 20206 yr Would love to spin up virtual raspberry pi's for development. Should be relatively straightforward to add with qemu already having ARM support available. Would love to be able to use the webgui to create virtual pis that mount and boot from standard pi image files.
March 4, 20206 yr On 2/29/2020 at 7:54 PM, Tjlejeune said: +1. Would love to be able to run a Android VM, mainly for Tasker Use AndroidX86: https://www.android-x86.org/releases.html In a normal x86 vm. Arm is not required for this. @OP - are there any specific limitations that prevent you from running the native x86 versions of those packages or configurations in say, an ArchLinux or Debian VM? I mean, testing rpi images is a fine use case for it. But crosscompiling for ARM is faster on native x86 if you are planning on using it for any sort of dev purposes.
March 5, 20206 yr Yeah, I've tried Android X86. Unfortunately it ran like crap and some apps don't work well on it
March 15, 20206 yr Author On 3/4/2020 at 5:58 PM, Xaero said: Use AndroidX86: https://www.android-x86.org/releases.html In a normal x86 vm. Arm is not required for this. @OP - are there any specific limitations that prevent you from running the native x86 versions of those packages or configurations in say, an ArchLinux or Debian VM? I mean, testing rpi images is a fine use case for it. But crosscompiling for ARM is faster on native x86 if you are planning on using it for any sort of dev purposes. For me specifically, I'm looking to do Raspberry Pi central management, development and testing before I send my images off to SD cards.
March 15, 20206 yr On 3/4/2020 at 7:03 PM, Tjlejeune said: Yeah, I've tried Android X86. Unfortunately it ran like crap and some apps don't work well on it Android running on Emulated ARM hardware would probably run worse, FWIW. 4 hours ago, jfrancais said: For me specifically, I'm looking to do Raspberry Pi central management, development and testing before I send my images off to SD cards. This would be a use case for it then. You could however, set up a PXE boot SD card and store your development/testing images on a PXE server for the PI. This way you aren't constantly writing an SD card and your changes to the image can happen quickly.
March 18, 20206 yr Author On 3/15/2020 at 3:36 PM, Xaero said: Android running on Emulated ARM hardware would probably run worse, FWIW. This would be a use case for it then. You could however, set up a PXE boot SD card and store your development/testing images on a PXE server for the PI. This way you aren't constantly writing an SD card and your changes to the image can happen quickly. I still need to develop the image which currently involved the Pi. Once setup I pull the image and deploy to other Pis. I'd like to do all that configuration on the PC and deploy from there.
January 22, 20215 yr I would like to second/third this request. ARM64 devices are becoming more popular. Microsoft Windows has an ARM64 edition available, and Apple is now moving to ARM64 as their primary OS platform. QEMU already proves the needed code to emulate the ARM64 platforms on other distributions. It would be awesome to have the capability included in Unraid as well.
March 6, 20215 yr It's one thing emulating an ARM CPU but a Raspberry Pi incorporates proprietary hardware in the form of the (almost completely undocumented) GPU integrated into the Broadcom SoC, which plays a crucial role in booting the device. Is this supported by QEMU?
November 4, 20214 yr Looks like this feature has been added to 6.10-rc2, if you have time, upgrade and give some feedback on if this is working for you or not. Quote Virtualization Both libvirt and qemu have been updated. In addition qemu has been compiled with OpenGL support, and [rc2] ARM emulation (experimental). Based on @SpaceInvaderOne's new 6.10-rc2 overview video, you need to manually edit the XML for the arm cpu type to get up and running
November 4, 20214 yr I am looking for the xml file "described" by @SpaceInvaderOne. Can someone say how the xml must be adapted, or how it looks? Unfortunately I have too little Quemu and Linux experience to do it myself ..... Thanks in advance for tips!!
October 2, 20223 yr I am looking at the requirements for ARM + Other non intel platforms to add as a PR a new template. Does any one know the main requirements. in another post in the VM section ghost82 has used the following for a pi but not on Unraid. <os> <type arch='armv7l' machine='versatilepb'>hvm</type> <kernel>/media/6TB/rasp/kernel-qemu-4.19.50-buster</kernel> <cmdline>root=/dev/sda2 rootfstype=ext4 rw</cmdline> <dtb>/media/6TB/rasp/versatile-pb-buster.dtb</dtb> <boot dev='hd'/> </os> <cpu mode='custom' match='exact' check='none'> <model fallback='forbid'>arm1176</model> </cpu> <devices> <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-arm</emulator> These are other available options and current windows OS options used. <os> <type>hvm</type> <loader>/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader</loader> <kernel>/root/f8-i386-vmlinuz</kernel> <initrd>/root/f8-i386-initrd</initrd> <cmdline>console=ttyS0 ks=http://example.com/f8-i386/os/</cmdline> <dtb>/root/ppc.dtb</dtb> <acpi> <table type='slic'>/path/to/slic.dat</table> </acpi> </os> <os> <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-q35-5.1'>hvm</type> <loader readonly='yes' type='pflash'>/usr/share/qemu/ovmf-x64/OVMF_CODE-pure-efi.fd</loader> <nvram>/etc/libvirt/qemu/nvram/c_VARS-pure-efi.fd</nvram> </os> Does any one have other working examples of arm XMLs Example template.
October 7, 20223 yr On 8/12/2021 at 9:06 AM, Maor said: +1 and add RISC-V as well This was added in 6.11.1
December 15, 20223 yr On 10/2/2022 at 2:11 AM, SimonF said: I am looking at the requirements for ARM + Other non intel platforms to add as a PR a new template. Does any one know the main requirements. in another post in the VM section ghost82 has used the following for a pi but not on Unraid. <os> <type arch='armv7l' machine='versatilepb'>hvm</type> <kernel>/media/6TB/rasp/kernel-qemu-4.19.50-buster</kernel> <cmdline>root=/dev/sda2 rootfstype=ext4 rw</cmdline> <dtb>/media/6TB/rasp/versatile-pb-buster.dtb</dtb> <boot dev='hd'/> </os> <cpu mode='custom' match='exact' check='none'> <model fallback='forbid'>arm1176</model> </cpu> <devices> <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-arm</emulator> These are other available options and current windows OS options used. <os> <type>hvm</type> <loader>/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader</loader> <kernel>/root/f8-i386-vmlinuz</kernel> <initrd>/root/f8-i386-initrd</initrd> <cmdline>console=ttyS0 ks=http://example.com/f8-i386/os/</cmdline> <dtb>/root/ppc.dtb</dtb> <acpi> <table type='slic'>/path/to/slic.dat</table> </acpi> </os> <os> <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-q35-5.1'>hvm</type> <loader readonly='yes' type='pflash'>/usr/share/qemu/ovmf-x64/OVMF_CODE-pure-efi.fd</loader> <nvram>/etc/libvirt/qemu/nvram/c_VARS-pure-efi.fd</nvram> </os> Does any one have other working examples of arm XMLs Example template. SimonF, How do I get access to these options? I do not see these drop downs available. Running 6.11.5 Stable.
December 16, 20223 yr 10 hours ago, sasdakota said: SimonF, How do I get access to these options? I do not see these drop downs available. Running 6.11.5 Stable. These options don't exist in the GUI, current there is only the executables included with the OS. root@computenode:~# ls /usr/bin/qemu* /usr/bin/qemu-aarch64* /usr/bin/qemu-i386* /usr/bin/qemu-nbd* /usr/bin/qemu-riscv64* /usr/bin/qemu-system-ppc* /usr/bin/qemu-x86_64* /usr/bin/qemu-aarch64_be* /usr/bin/qemu-img* /usr/bin/qemu-ppc* /usr/bin/qemu-storage-daemon* /usr/bin/qemu-system-riscv32* /usr/bin/qemu-edid* /usr/bin/qemu-io* /usr/bin/qemu-pr-helper* /usr/bin/qemu-system-aarch64* /usr/bin/qemu-system-riscv64* /usr/bin/qemu-ga* /usr/bin/qemu-keymap* /usr/bin/qemu-riscv32* /usr/bin/qemu-system-i386* /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64*
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