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I created a chroot environment with qemu to get a x86 linux kernel to run on a Raspberry Pi 3. Do you know how to pass the USB port through when running sudo chroot /home/pi/chroot-stretch-i386/ /bin/su -l root? Is there a config file for that?

Thanks for your help.

See: https://www.novaspirit.com/2019/04/15/run-x86-arm/

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  • The sudo chroot... command you've given doesn't have anything to do with Qemu. It would be the qemu command that would allow you to define a pass-through.
    – Chris Davies
    Sep 19, 2019 at 22:42
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    The instructions OP is following don't actually explicitly run qemu at any point. Instead, they rely on binfmt-support and qemu-user-static to automatically run foreign-architecture (x86) binaries through qemu. So it would seem to be necessary to investigate configuration files in /usr/share/binfmts to find the wrapper script that will run qemu for x86 binaries, and then find a suitable place to modify the actual qemu invocation to enable USB passthrough. I don't have such a set-up at the moment so I cannot check the details, can someone else continue from here?
    – telcoM
    Sep 19, 2019 at 23:15

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I did this (the other way around, running the Raspberry system on x86, but it might help):

# mount /dev/sdxy /mnt/pi # the pi's sdcard

You should now copy qemu-arm-static to /mnt/pi/usr/bin, but you've alredy set that up.

# cd /mnt/pi
# mount -t proc proc proc/
# mount -t sysfs sys sys/
# mount -o bind /dev dev/
# export QEMU_DEVICE=qemu-xhci
# chroot /mnt/pi

That's it, now I can run lsusb and do things like

cat /dev/input/mouse0

inside the chroot and see the input.

Does this help? What are you trying to access over USB?

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