How can I emulate the Raspberry Pi on Windows?
Related: Emulation on a Linux PC
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Meta discussion: meta.raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/a/122/35– Alex LJun 15, 2012 at 12:02
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Cygwin must be used to run QEMU in Windows. I don't know any other way.– JivingsJun 15, 2012 at 12:30
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@Jivings There's a(n unofficial) precompiled version - lassauge.free.fr/qemu– Alex LJun 15, 2012 at 12:50
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1@ACarter It's not. Because Alex wants to emulate the ARM architecture, just just the OS.– JivingsJun 20, 2012 at 21:21
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2I'm still disappointed with the quality of the answers here; they are either prone to link rot or don't explain what is going on.– Alex ChamberlainJul 27, 2012 at 15:58
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I found a rare gem of a tutorial while trying to find updates for the RISC OS distribution for the RPi. It goes in-depth on how to emulate the RPi in Windows using QEMU. The tutorial is also generous enough to provide a link to the Win32 binary for QEMU. I plan on following this tutorial myself when I find the time.
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3Could you please expand your answer to protect against link rot? Cheers!– Alex LSep 16, 2012 at 12:03
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1@Jivings I've been attacked by life which has made my schedule quite busy. It's still on my list of things to do, though! I'd normally do it at work, but I got a new job that's much more time-consuming. Sep 25, 2012 at 20:03
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1@ThatBrazilianGuy I know; I'm a terrible person. It's still on my list, though, along with a couple things for AskDifferent. Sep 10, 2013 at 22:19
There is a very nice Raspberry Pi forum posting about “Emulating Raspberry Pi in Windows the easy way”. Somebody already did all the work to make Raspberry Pi emulation in Windows as simple as possible. The instructions are:
Unzip the file when it finishes downloading.
Inside the folder you should find a
run.batfile which will do all the magic for you.
The zip file is literally Raspberry Pi in a zip. It contains QEMU along with the Wheezy squeeze, and the batch file that you run to start the emulation contains the exact command to start QEMU as an ARM CPU running Wheezy. This is the epitome of KISS.
It should be noted that others have downloaded and checked the files for viruses, and that the emulation has been confirmed on several versions of Windows. I can confirm the emulation works in Windows 7 Ultimate.
Bear in mind that the default keyboard layout is English GB. If you are using an English US keyboard then there'll be some problems with the | character, to fix it you need to run the configure keyboard option at the raspi-config tool at first boot up.
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You can emulate the RPi in VirtualBox with relative ease.
Here is a thread with instructions. It's rather straightforward to get this up and running.
EDIT: You need to get Scratchbox and QEMU working with this as VirtualBox doens't emulate ARM out the box.
Here are further instructions. (Same link, from web.archive.org)
answered Jun 26, 2012 at 11:27
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4If the links die, this answer will be rather useless. Could you summarise the content?– Alex LJun 27, 2012 at 5:30
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You could easily try my Raspberry Pi simulator included with sensor, command line and file editor at iotify.io. Check out our documentation at https://docs.iotify.io/ to get started with the different projects OS and make yourself familiar with Raspberry Pi working environment.
