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I am looking at evaluating a tool-chain for programming ARM chips with a Raspberry Pi and I would like to run a Vagrant box that simulates a Raspberry Environment.

Does anyone know if something like that is available? (I have searched online for a solution but I might be asking Google the wrong questions :)

Bertus Kruger
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There is no Vagant box to simulate the RPi because as @Cerin said Virtual Box (which Vagrant uses) doesn't support Rapsberry Pi architecture (ARM). But there is a docker that provide a shell to a Raspbian image running on qemu.

Look here for a quick setup : https://gist.github.com/Manu343726/ca0ceb224ea789415387

Note that this guide is made for arch linux. You can do the same with debian/ubuntu changing yaourt -S call with sudo apt install

antoine
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There exists the rpi-build-and-boot or the older raspberry-devbox Vagrant development box for Raspberry Pi.

Pascal Berger
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  • I noticed it but looking at the Vagrant file it uses "box.vm.box = "ubuntu-10.04.3-server-amd64-asq"" . Is that the same as Rasbian? – Bertus Kruger Dec 02 '15 at 20:01
  • No it's not the same. It's an image which can be used for development and cross-compiling for the raspberry pi. See also [this issue](https://github.com/Asquera/raspberry-devbox/issues/1) – Pascal Berger Dec 02 '15 at 20:06
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    Or maybe [this one](https://github.com/twobitcircus/rpi-build-and-boot) can help you. Its also more up to date. – Pascal Berger Dec 02 '15 at 20:24
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    Note, neither of those simulate the Raspberry Pi. They each use Virtualbox which does not support ARM, and therefore cannot simulate the Pi's ARM processor. It looks like they just set up a cross-compilation environment, but that's not the same thing as simulating the Pi. – Cerin Apr 11 '16 at 21:20