- Has anyone runned Armbian in QEMU?
- What is the command to run it?
- From where to get kernel and which version?
- Which version of Armbian to use?
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Apparently, no, it's not supported. See the response to a similar question in armbian forums:
That image is a normal X86 virtual image with, I assume, the same package base. I don't see much point in dealing with that ... but If you need that, install a base X86 Debian / Ubuntu system and https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib/blob/second/deboostrap.sh#L138-L143 ... and you are close to Armbian. Special things are anyway very much hardware related, which aren't emulated.
- @user29510 actually it is possibletswaehn– tswaehn2021-06-02 09:50:47 +00:00Commented Jun 2, 2021 at 9:50
use qemu-system-arm on debian-buster and a specified cpu armv7 like H3 NanoPi NEO Core-LTS (same like orangepi)
before starting:
- download armbian image for H3
- unpack device tree (dtb) into folder
dtb - unpack ramdisk (
uInitrd-5.10.12-sunxi) + kernel (vmlinuz-5.10.12-sunxi)
then run:
qemu-system-arm -m 1G,slots=3,maxmem=4G \ -machine type=orangepi-pc -cpu cortex-a7 -dtb dtb/sun8i-h3-nanopi-neo.dtb \ -smp 4 \ -kernel vmlinuz-5.10.12-sunxi -initrd uInitrd-5.10.12-sunxi -append "earlyprintk #loglevel=8 earlycon=uart8250,mmio32,0x1c28000,115200n8 console=ttyS0 root=/dev/mmcblk0p1" \ -no-reboot -nographic -serial stdio -monitor none \ -hda Armbian_21.02.1_Nanopineo_buster_current_5.10.12.img \ -nic user,model=allwinner-sun8i-emac,hostfwd=tcp::50022-:22 boots up like charm :)
you can access the VM ssh port with ssh -p 50022 localhost
- Works like a charm. If you have an sd-card raw image of armbian, you just need to replace
-hda Armbian_21.02.1_Nanopineo_buster_current_5.10.12.imgwith-drive format=raw,file=sdcard.rawVincent Fenet– Vincent Fenet2022-11-15 11:03:44 +00:00Commented Nov 15, 2022 at 11:03