Well, I was finally able to get Wheezy to boot up using the Jessie and Wheezy kernels found at. Installation is pretty easy…either you can build from source or install it directly from you distribution’s source. QEMU is an opensource machine emulator that supports wide variety of processors (including R-Pi’s ARM processor). UPDATE JULY 2016: Since the procedure described in this tutorial is only tested and guaranteed to work with Raspbian Wheezy, and since the Wheezy is not anymore the de-facto distribution, you can find the official archived distribution only HERE. Please note that the procedure in this article is only tested on Wheezy, and I am not sure if it is going to work with the new Jessie release or the NOOBS flavour (I do not see why it shouldn’t, you can try on your own and let me know :P). You can simply download the latest Raspbian Wheezy distribution from. Getting the R-Pi Image, installing QEMU emulator (if you do not have it already) and compile or download a QEMU-Ready kernel of R-Pi.

So, there are essential 3 things you need to do. If that is the case, today’s article is going to show you how to emulate R-Pi on Linux! For sure there are some cases that running your code on an emulated R-Pi would make sense. But when it comes to embedded systems, one might want to test his software on an emulated Raspberry Pi (due to the debugging and serial console maybe!). Being dirt cheap while powerful enough to run your home multimedia center is the key selling point of Raspberry Pi.

Raspberry Pi has gained a lot of fame over the past years since it’s introduction.

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