Extracting Beaglebone Image to be developed into a VM

[Mitch Martinez]

Hi all,

I have been trying to find a resource on how to extract the image I have on my BeagleBone Black's eMMC to a micro SD card. I know that this can be done by using the script located at /opt/scripts/tools/eMMC/beaglebone-black-make-microSD-flasher-from-eMMC.sh, but I want to be able to take the extracted image and set up a virtual machine for remote testing of certain software packages. 

Any help will be appreciated. Please let me know if the question is not clear enough or if I have misunderstood my problem and I will do my best to clarify anything. 

Thank you,

Mitch 

[Stephane Charette]

[...] I want to be able to take the extracted image and set up a virtual machine for remote testing of certain software packages.

What VM software do you plan on using that emulates ARM?

Stephane

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2018 23:21:15 -0800 (PST), Mitch Martinez
<mjmar...@tamu.edu> declaimed the following:

>but I want to be able to take the extracted image and set up a virtual
>machine for remote testing of certain software packages.
>
>Any help will be appreciated. Please let me know if the question is not
>clear enough or if I have misunderstood my problem and I will do my best to
>clarify anything.
>

Off-hand, I'd say you have "misunderstood <your> problem"

Most VM systems do not emulate processors -- they only isolate an OS
from the host OS. That means running on an Intel type host (M$ Windows say)
requires the image running in the VM to also be native Intel instruction
set.

So, on that criteria -- you would need an ARM host for the VM in order
to run Beaglebone images.


http://armsim.cs.uvic.ca/
https://www.crossware.com/arm/simulator Both of these focus on simulation
of single programs; I doubt an OS would be feasible.

https://www.qemu.org/ This is likely the closest match to what you
seek, though you'll likely have to configure it for the specific
peripherals of the Beagle https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms/ARM
(note that Beagle is not listed as a board; I do not know what is involved
in adding support for specific peripherals)
https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/TCG/frontend-ops
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