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Is there an emulator for Raspberry Pi that I could use to try to familiarise myself with the environment?

And in my case something that will work on OSX.

Mike Poole
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Maria Zverina
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    This is not a duplicate of Linux question - please consider answering the question as pertaining to OSX - preferably with something nicely packaged. Really do not want to be hacking around with Linux package managers. – Maria Zverina Jun 18 '12 at 22:38
  • Although a duplicate, this is still a useful question to have, so I have undeleted it. I hope that's okay. It's also a well asked one, so I have given you an upvote as well. – Jivings Jul 30 '12 at 08:17
  • How about a vote to reopen it as well? :) – Maria Zverina Jul 30 '12 at 08:26
  • The problem is that the answer would be almost identical to that Linux question. I think we'll have to let the community make that decision. – Jivings Jul 30 '12 at 08:28
  • By the way, if you don't agree with any decisions then you can always raise your opinions on [meta] or in [chat]. – Jivings Jul 30 '12 at 08:30
  • +1 for reopen. OS X isn't discussed in the other answer (it isn't linux), only Arch/Ubuntu are covered. – Alex L Nov 04 '12 at 06:08
  • @AlexL Would building and using QEMU be any different on OSX? – Jivings Nov 11 '12 at 16:52
  • @Jivings Would it not be worth including installation instructions for QEMU on OSX? – Alex L Nov 12 '12 at 02:35
  • @AlexL Well, it depends if they are any different! – Jivings Nov 12 '12 at 07:39
  • @Jivings I'd be able to tell you if the question was opened and answered! – Alex L Nov 12 '12 at 07:49
  • @AlexL Well you only need one more vote ;) From what I can see though, the process is identical. – Jivings Nov 12 '12 at 07:52

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See this post re. using VirtualBox to run a virtualized version of Ubuntu. It comes configured with QEMU to emulate the ARM CPU and run Debian on ARM.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=2961&hilit=virtualbox

It doesn't provide any emulation of the Pi's hardware interfaces though, if that's what you're looking for, it just provides a virtualized copy of the OS.

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