Updated 11/6/19

Four Pi Emulations ala QEMU

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

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

Burn as .img: 

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