But I could have *sworn* I'd seen QEMU running a Raspbian desktop. I tried running the example command line graphics programs in /vc/opt but they wouldn't work, complaining that it can't access the vchiq. run.sh will run it as a headless instance, giving me a bash shell into a virtual Pi. The two scripts in this repo get the job done reliably./install.sh willl download QEMU, a Raspbian distro, and all of the required deps. Fortunately the open source emulation tool QEMU is up to the task.įollowing the instructions here, I was able to download and run QEMU on my Mac. That means I need an emulator, not just an OS conatiner wrapper like Docker.
The RaspberryPi is an ARM computer and most Macs (until a few months ago) are X86. The short version is: yes it can be done but it's useless for graphics.
As part of that I wanted to emulate a Raspberry Pi on my Mac. I've paused my work on Filament for a while to go back and do some more research into low level graphics for IdealOS.
