Raspberry Pi emulation for Windows Reviews

It works, but that's the one and only positive point here. No update since 10 years, Qemu and the OS image are extremely outdated. There are binaries which are unnecessary for this purpose.

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Great solution for develop fast for Raspberry

Extension the size as given in one of the previous reviews didn't work for me. However the instruction give at www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4382 worked for me. You can open an second image in QEMU where you can resize /dev/sda1 using program gparted. So 1) copy the image to raspbian.img 2) resize by qemu-img resize raspbian.img +2G 3) Run both images as: qemu-system-arm.exe -M versatilepb -cpu arm1176 -hda 2012-07-15-wheezy-raspbian.img -kernel kernel-qemu -m 256 -append "root=/dev/sda2" -net none -drive file=raspbian.img 4) sudo apt-get install gparted 5) Startx and run sudo gparted in the command window en select the second partion and resize it. 5) You new larger image is then raspbian.img.

Thanks a lot! Have u got a plan to update the kit with the latest binaries of the QEMU and Raspbian IMG ?

Hello, I installed this. I see there are 2 desktop selection option available in the toolbar menu. Can i use one as server and the other one as client ? If not please give me a clue how could i achieve this ? Basically i want to achieve two virtual Raspberry pi devices to communicate with each other. Best regards Sathish

The emulation worked perfectly for the Raspberry Pi command line. The GUI was sluggish on my 2.4 GHz i5 Windows 10 system. I used the following command line to map the Raspberry Pi port 22 (SSH) to localhost port 2222. This allows you to ssh into the pi and to psftp files in and out. You will need to run psftp from a command prompt and the putty directory must be in your path. REM This will start the Raspberry Pi with 256 MB of RAM and redirect tcp port 22 (ssh) to port 2222. REM Use putty ftp command: psftp -l pi -P 2222 127.0.0.1 qemu-system-arm.exe -M versatilepb -cpu arm1176 -hda 2012-07-15-wheezy-raspbian.img -kernel kernel-qemu -m 256 -append "root=/dev/sda2" -redir tcp:2222::22

Great work, thank you! A questione please: can I run it on linux without WINE?

to test with more recent image : just download latest image file in the qemu in qemu edit run.bat and change in it the img file and there you go. ps: too bad you cant save anything

Very nice and easy to be up and running. However i tried very hard to get tap/bridge network under QEMU working, without any luck. i wish the author updated it to a more recent kernel, and latest Raspbian image, and latest Qemu.

thanks a lot

This is awesome! It actually works very well. I wouldn't know it was an emulator by looking at it. However, it is quite slow and the text stretches when you make the window bigger. Great over all though!

Nice and easy to use. But how to use USB with this? Unlike Virtual Box and VMPlayer. We can connect USB devices easily. How about QEMU? Tutorial please.

Thank you! For those interested in, it's also possible to upgrade the disk size in a simple way: just follow these instructions: from windows cmd, move to qemu img folder $ qemu-img resize [nomeimmagine].img +2G start emulator, login and create this file: $ sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/90-qemu.rules with this content: KERNEL=="sda", SYMLINK+="mmcblk0" KERNEL=="sda?", SYMLINK+="mmcblk0p%n" KERNEL=="sda2", SYMLINK+="root" reboot $ sudo ln -snf mmcblk0p2 /dev/root $ sudo raspi-config expand file system reboot

Thanks, very easy to use and help me a lot :D

Thank you for this emulator!

The most important feature, expanding the disk size e.g. to the size of an SD card with 4GB fails. So you get stuck with the initial size of the download (<1.5GB?). It would be easier when the download already contains an image with 4GB inside.

Good and useful software

Thank you for this emulator! I have a question you ask, how can I boot from my sd card that it is in drive E: I do not know what I need to change the run.bat Thank you for your help.