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Description

A quick & dirty script to emulate Raspberry family devices on your laptop. It generates a valid sdcard image that can be deployed on real hardware and used as virtual storage for QEMU.

Some features

• Preliminary support for custom images generated by third parties, adopting the classic Raspberry Pi partition table.
• Use OVMF UEFI images for rpi-2, rpi-3 & rpi-4
• Almost full KVM acceleration for aarch64
• Latest stable Linux kernels for every supported platform
• Basic Networking support
• Docker image and example docker-compose file for quick deploy
• SSH guest access

Powered with ❤️ by Arch Linux Arm images

Instructions

Required runtime dependencies

• coreutils
• dnsmasq
• dosfstools
• e2fsprogs
• file
• grep
• iproute2
• iptables
• libarchive
• procps-ng
• qemu-arch-extra
• sudo
• util-linux
• curl

From sources

1. Download the sources and go into the simonpi directory

   git clone https://github.com/M0Rf30/simonpi.git

   cd simonpi

2. Set permissions for QEMU bridge interface

   sudo echo "allow rasp-br0 >> /etc/qemu/bridge.conf

3. Download the required OVMF images:

   for rpi-2 (arch=ARM)

   http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/kernel/leg-virt-tianocore-edk2-upstream/latest/QEMU-ARM/RELEASE_GCC5/QEMU_EFI.fd

   for rpi-3 (arch=AARCH64)

   http://snapshots.linaro.org/components/kernel/leg-virt-tianocore-edk2-upstream/latest/QEMU-AARCH64/RELEASE_GCC5/QEMU_EFI.fd

   and place them respectively in the follow path:

   /usr/share/OVMF/$arch/QEMU_EFI.fd

4. Type:

   ./simonpi -h for details

and follow the help guidelines

For Arch Linux users

You can find sim-on-pi on AUR

Type:

yaourt -S simonpi

or

yaourt -S simonpi-git

for latest development changes

and that's all!

Docker image

See the How to into docker folder

Deployment

All the assets (disk images, downloaded archives..) are saved in ~/.simonpi by default.

You can transfer your sd img on a valid sdcard using programs like Etcher or this simple command:

dd if=sd-arch-MODEL-qemu.img of=/dev/sdX bs=4M

where MODEL could be:

• rpi
• rpi-2
• rpi-3
• rpi-4 and theorically next upgrades and X could be mmcblk0 or other block devices

PR

• Fork it
• Modify it
• TEST it
• Do a Pull Request

Any suggestions are welcome

Used Kernels

Take a look here for adopted Kernel images: