andyault / rpi-emu

Emulating Raspberry Pi on OSX

Installing QEMU (on OS X)

1. Install QEMU:

sudo brew install qemu

2. Download QEMU kernel for Debian Jessie:

curl -OL https://github.com/dhruvvyas90/qemu-rpi-kernel/raw/master/kernel-qemu-4.4.34-jessie

3. Optionally: Download a raspbian image:

curl -OL http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2015-11-24/2015-11-21-raspbian-jessie.zip
unzip 2015-11-21-raspbian-jessie.zip -d images
rm 2015-11-21-raspbian-jessie.zip

Steps

Once QEMU has been installed, you may now do the following:

1. Retrieving image files
2. Using QEMU
3. Saving image files
4. And, optionally: Mounting images

Notes

• This guide is mostly for myself, so some things may not work everywhere
• Might not need to comment out /etc/ld.so.conf anymore, will need to test
• SSH doesn't seem to work, but that may be related to comments found here

Credits

Much of this guide was developed with help from hfreire's gist (found here)