SimOnPI

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 :heart: 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

Download the sources and go into the simonpi directory

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

cd simonpi
Set permissions for QEMU bridge interface

sudo echo "allow rasp-br0 >> /etc/qemu/bridge.conf
Download the required EDK2-AVMF images:

and place them respectively in the follow path:

/usr/share/edk2-armvirt/aarch64/QEMU_EFI.fd
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

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: