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KVM/QEMU Raspberry Pi ARM VM

This project contains a fully configured Raspbian Jessie VM.

Install QEMU

For the setup you need the qemu-system-arm package.
Arch

pacman -S qemu-arch-extra
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Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install -y qemu-system-arm
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Download Content

Download all following content in one Folder.
Create start.sh file

Download Rasbian Jessie 2017-07-05

wget https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2017-07-05/2017-07-05-raspbian-jessie.zip
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Download Qemu Kernel Jessie

wget https://github.com/dhruvvyas90/qemu-rpi-kernel/raw/master/kernel-qemu-4.4.34-jessie
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Convert iso-image to qcow-image

  1. Create QCOW image from ISO.
  2. Resize the QCOW image. 
qemu-img convert -f raw -O qcow2 2017-07-05-raspbian-jessie.img raspbian-jessie.qcow
qemu-img resize raspbian-jessie.qcow +6G
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Start VM 

./start.sh
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SSH into VM

For Using SSH you first need to enable ssh in the raspi-config.

  1. Open the raspberry pi vm
  2. Run sudo raspi-config
  3. Goto: Interfacing Options > SSH > YES 
ssh pi@localhost -p 1234
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Default Login 

User: pi
Password: raspberry
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Julian Yaman •

Hello sir, you defaul passwort is not good.

default = raspberry