Emulation on a Windows PC

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How can I emulate the Raspberry Pi on Windows?

Related: Emulation on a Linux PC

Meta discussion: http://meta.raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/a/122/35 — Alex L, Jun 15 '12 at 12:02
Cygwin must be used to run QEMU in Windows. I don't know any other way. — Jivings, Jun 15 '12 at 12:30
@Jivings There's a(n unofficial) precompiled version - http://lassauge.free.fr/qemu/ — Alex L, Jun 15 '12 at 12:50
Just asking, but is this not just the same as emulating Debian? — ACarter, Jun 20 '12 at 17:01
@ACarter It's not. Because Alex wants to emulate the ARM architecture, just just the OS. — Jivings, Jun 20 '12 at 21:21
I'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 Chamberlain, Jul 27 '12 at 15:58
@AlexChamberlain I plan on making my answer stand alone. I'll put it on my to-do list. I see this question having a lot of value for a large audience. — Andrew Larsson, Jul 31 '12 at 16:01
thanks in advance as i am about to by raspberry pi for education purpose in rural India this emulator was the piece of software is was searching form weeks .. — , Dec 02 '12 at 09:24
@AlexChamberlain I will revisit my answer hopefully over the Holiday break. — Andrew Larsson, Dec 21 '12 at 05:29

score 38 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 20 '12 at 16:18

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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.

answered Jun 20 '12 at 16:18

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Could you please expand your answer to protect against link rot? Cheers! – Alex L Sep 16 '12 at 12:03
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Of course! I'll have it done soon. – Andrew Larsson Sep 16 '12 at 18:53
@AndrewLarsson Soon? – Jivings Sep 21 '12 at 06:08
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@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. – Andrew Larsson Sep 25 '12 at 20:03
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Well, it's been 15 months... – That Brazilian Guy Sep 03 '13 at 13:09
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@ThatBrazilianGuy I know; I'm a terrible person. It's still on my list, though, along with a couple things for AskDifferent. – Andrew Larsson Sep 10 '13 at 22:19
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It's ok, I still believe in you! – Liesmith Jul 28 '15 at 16:38
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@Andrew: Soon? It's been nearly five years ... – Mar 19 '17 at 03:25
@FighterJet Soon was probably the wrong word to use... It will get done eventually! – Andrew Larsson Mar 20 '17 at 05:42
To fight against the inevitable link rot, I've put it through an archiver: http://archive.is/ZQjwB Though, I do still want to put the summary/basics into my answer. – Andrew Larsson Mar 20 '17 at 05:46
Another archive, just in case: https://web.archive.org/web/20200725153907/http://cronicasredux.blogspot.com/2011/09/installing-and-running-debian-armel-on.html – Andrew Larsson Feb 25 '21 at 21:10

score 13 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 03 '23 at 19:24

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:

download a zip from SourceForge
Unzip the file when it finishes downloading.
Inside the folder you should find a run.bat file 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.

I can also confirm that this way works also in Windows 10. – Ad Infinitum Jan 13 '17 at 08:22 — Ad Infinitum, Jan 13 '17 at 08:22

score 2 · Answer 3 · edited Sep 04 '20 at 10:22

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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)

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answered Jun 26 '12 at 11:27

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The problem with this is that it wont be ARM architecture. – Jivings Jun 26 '12 at 11:39
Really? VirtualBox doesn't emulate that? – darryn.ten Jun 26 '12 at 11:40
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No, you need to use a instruction set emulator, such as QEMU. – Jivings Jun 26 '12 at 11:42
TIL... Updated my post – darryn.ten Jun 26 '12 at 11:46
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Nice, you have my upvote now. – Jivings Jun 26 '12 at 12:03
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If the links die, this answer will be rather useless. Could you summarise the content? – Alex L Jun 27 '12 at 05:30
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link to instructions are dead :( – Piotr Kula Feb 19 '15 at 21:35

score -2 · Answer 4 · edited Feb 01 '17 at 18:22

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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.

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