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sakaki- / gentoo-on-rpi-64bit

Bootable 64-bit Gentoo image for the Raspberry Pi4B, 3B & 3B+, with Linux 5.4, OpenRC, Xfce4, VC4/V3D, camera and h/w codec support, weekly-autobuild binhost
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load gentoo-on-rpi3-64bit on Vmware or Qemo? #65

Closed mv2050arshad closed 5 years ago

mv2050arshad commented 5 years ago

Hi Is it possible to load gentoo-on-rpi3-64bit image on Vmware or Qemo? thanks in advance

sakaki- commented 5 years ago

Hi ardashir66,

Is it possible to load gentoo-on-rpi3-64bit image on Vmware or Qemo?

do you mean QEMU? It is certainly possible to chroot into the image on (e.g.) and x86_64 bit machine, and then run emerges etc. via user-mode QEMU via binfmt_misc: I have instructions for doing this on the project's wiki here. Can be useful (given a sufficiently powerful machine) for emerging large packages etc. You can also (subject to init-system mismatches etc.) run some graphical apps from the chroot, and display them on your own system (via X11 forwarding).

As to system mode emulation, there is an issue with boot, since the RPi3's (currently unemulated) GPU controls the boot process. However, there is now some limited support for booting with the kernel directly using -M raspi3; see e.g. this post.

hth, sakaki

PS I think this is possibly a duplicate of my reply posted on the RPi3 forums (if you are user arshad66 there).

mv2050arshad commented 5 years ago

thank you very much for your answer