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Run Raspberry Pi 64 system image with QEMU on macOS
#!/bin/bash
# Requirements:
# - macOS
# - qemu - `brew install qemu`
# - A raw 64-bit Raspberry Pi system image to boot (Usually a .img)
set -e
if [[ -z "$1" ]]; then
echo "Disk image expected as argument" 1>&2
exit 1
fi
# Mount disk and find where /boot is mounted
BOOT_MOUNT=$(
hdiutil attach -imagekey diskimage-class=CRawDiskImage "$1" | grep 'Windows_FAT_32' | sed 's/.*\t//'
)
# Copy required files to local folder
cp "$BOOT_MOUNT/bcm2710-rpi-3-b-plus.dtb" ./
cp "$BOOT_MOUNT/kernel8.img" ./
# Unmount disk
hdiutil detach "$BOOT_MOUNT"
# Make sure the disk is on a power of two boundary for QEMU
qemu-img resize -f raw "$1" 8G
qemu-system-aarch64 \
-M raspi3b \
-cpu cortex-a72 \
-append "rw earlyprintk loglevel=8 console=ttyAMA0,115200 dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootdelay=1" \
-dtb bcm2710-rpi-3-b-plus.dtb \
-drive "if=sd,format=raw,file=$1" \
-kernel kernel8.img \
-m 1G -smp 4 \
-serial mon:stdio \
-device usb-net,netdev=net0 \
-netdev user,id=net0,hostfwd=tcp::5555-:22 \
-usb -device usb-mouse -device usb-kbd \
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