Updated 11/6/19

Visit the repo on Github here-
https://github.com/Jesssullivan/QEMU-Raspian

tested on Mac OSX 10.14.6

Emulates a variety of Raspian releases on proper ARM hardware with QEMU.

Prerequisites:

QEMU and wget (OSX homebrew)

brew install qemu wget

Get the Python3 CLI in this repo:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jesssullivan/USBoN/master/QEMU_Raspian.py

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Usage:

After the first launch, it will launch from the persistent .qcow2 image.

With no arguments & in a new folder, Raspian “stretch-lite” (no desktop environment) will be:

• downloaded as a zip archive with a release kernel

• unarchived —> to img

• converted to a Qcow2 with 8gb allocated as disk

• launched from Qcow2 as administrator

  sudo python3 QEMU_Raspian.py

Optional Arguments:

• -h prints CLI usage help

• -rm removes ALL files added in dir with QEMU_Raspian.py

• stretch uses standard graphical stretch release with GUI

• stretchlite for stretchlite release [default!]

• buster for standard graphical buster release [YMMV]

• busterlite for busterlite release [YMMV]

  examples:

  sudo python3 QEMU_Raspian.py busterlite python3 QEMU_Raspian -h # print help

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Burn as .img:

qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O raw file.qcow2 file.img

The image of “Four Pi Emulations ala QEMU” is no longer available.

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