QEMU Raspberry Pi 2 Emulation on Mac OS X

runpi.sh

#!/bin/bash
# tested on Max OS X 10.13.2 "High Sierra"

# install qemu using: `brew install qemu`
# get kernel from: https://github.com/dhruvvyas90/qemu-rpi-kernel/blob/master/kernel-qemu-4.4.34-jessie?raw=true
# get raspbian image from: http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_latest

qemu-system-arm \
-kernel kernel-qemu-4.4.34-jessie \
-cpu arm1176 \
-m 256 \
-machine versatilepb \
-append "root=/dev/sda2 panic=1 rootfstype=ext4 rw" \
-drive "file=./2017-11-29-raspbian-stretch.img,index=0,media=disk,format=raw" \
-no-reboot \
-serial stdio \
-curses \
-device e1000,netdev=user.0 \
-netdev user,id=user.0,hostfwd=tcp::2222-:22

# note the last line redirects ssh on the emulated raspi to localhost:2222

Wondering if some of the Catalina+ changes may be getting in the way here? I'll run some tests tomorrow and update with what I find.

yep. looks like this is a combination of Catalina and newer raspi images. Looks like the place I ref'd for the kernel image has this working in a much better format: https://github.com/dhruvvyas90/qemu-rpi-kernel/ (and they link to a docker image, also).