[GTALUG] Setting up a VM host

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Tue Sep 6 13:12:14 EDT 2016


On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 04:03:16PM +0000, David Thornton wrote:
> So I didn't know that about qemu.  I've been thinking about doing a Linux
> from scratch for my pi Zero. I feel like qemu would be the tool to do that .
> 
> At the risk of forking the thread... anyone done that?

Well in Debian there is a qemu-debootstrap which lets you setup a root
fs for another architecture.  Not the same as compiling everything, but
it does involve running some stuff on a host machine and some emulated
for the target machine.

So, haven't done it, but it should work.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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