Run Raspbian with qemu and virt-manager -

Run with QEMU

Download kernel-qemu-4.14.79-stretch and versatile-pb.dtb at dhruvvyas90/qemu-rpi-kernel .
Download Raspbian Stretch at the official site. I use ’lite’ version, but other version should be fine.

Install necessary tools

# For Debian
$ sudo apt-get install qemu-utils qemu-system-arm unzip

# For Fedora
$ sudo dnf install qemu-img qemu-system-arm unzip

Extract the image
```
$ unzip <raspbian-image>.zip
```

Convert .img to .qcow2

$ qemu-img convert -f raw -O qcow2 <raspbian-image>.img <raspbian-image>.qcow2

Increase image size to the size you want

$ qemu-img resize <raspbian-image>.qcow2 +10G

If you just want to boot it with QEMU:

$ sudo qemu-system-arm -kernel kernel-qemu-4.14.79-stretch \
-dtb versatile-pb.dtb \
-m 256 -cpu arm1176 \
-machine versatilepb \
-hda <raspbian-image>.qcow2 \
-append "root=/dev/sda2"

Run with virt-manager

Install virt-manager

# For Debian
$ sudo apt-get install virt-manager

# For Fedora
$ sudo dnf install virt-manager

Create a sample domain file /tmp/rpi.xml with content:

<domain type='qemu'>
  <name>rpi</name>
  <uuid>b6dc9356-f772-4f63-bf78-0fe5f9f11923</uuid>
  <memory unit='KiB'>262144</memory>
  <currentMemory unit='KiB'>262144</currentMemory>
  <os>
    <type arch='armv7l' machine='versatilepb'>hvm</type>
    <kernel>/path/to/kernel-qemu-4.14.79-stretch</kernel> <!--update path here-->
    <cmdline>root=/dev/sda2</cmdline>
    <dtb>/path/to/versatile-pb.dtb</dtb>                  <!--update path here-->
    <boot dev='hd'/>
  </os>
  <cpu mode='custom' match='exact' check='none'>
    <model fallback='forbid'>arm1176</model>
  </cpu>
  <devices>
    <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-arm</emulator>
    <disk type='file' device='disk'>
      <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2'/>
      <source file='/path/to/.qcow2'/>                     <!--update path here-->
      <backingStore/>
      <target dev='sda' bus='scsi'/>
      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/>
    </disk>
    <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'/>
    <interface type='bridge'>
      <mac address='52:54:00:ed:eb:c7'/>
      <source bridge='virbr0'/>
      <model type='virtio'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x0'/>
    </interface>
    <graphics type='spice' autoport='yes'>
      <listen type='address'/>
      <image compression='off'/>
      <gl enable='no' rendernode='/dev/dri/by-path/pci-0000:00:02.0-render'/>
    </graphics>
    <video>
      <model type='virtio' heads='1' primary='yes'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/>
    </video>
  </devices>
</domain>

Change the path of kernel-qemu-4.14.79-stretch, versatile-pb.dtb and .qcow2 file to the correct absolute path.

Create a new domain for raspbian
```
$ sudo virsh define /tmp/rpi.xml
$ sudo virsh start rpi
```
Open Virtual Machine Manager (virt-manager), you will see a new machine name rpi is running.
In the virtual machine, login with username:password is pi:raspberry.

Extend partitions and file system size to the image size

$ sudo /usr/lib/raspi-config/init_resize.sh
# Waiting for reboot done
$ sudo resize2fs /dev/sda2

Change keyboard layout from gb to us

$ sudo vi /etc/default/keyboard
...
XKBLAYOUT="us"
...

then restart service console-setup.sh

$ sudo service console-setup.sh restart

Done.

Run with QEMU

Run with virt-manager

See also