Questions tagged [emulation]
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CD-ROM emulation in usb gadget mode
I am trying to create CD-ROM emulator from my Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W.
I configured Raspbery OS which allows Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W to work in USB Gadget Mode.
Also I use g_mass_storage_module to emulate ...
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Is there any user friendly 64-bit android emulators on Pop_OS?
I have recently switched to Pop_OS and am currently in the process of trying to get an android gaming emulation experience similar to Bluestacks. I just tried Genymotion, which ran really well, ...
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What's the easiest way to run x86_64 applications on aarch (Arm)?
I'm currently running the Asahi (Linux on the M1 Macbook pro) beta with Arch Linux, but would like to run some x86/x86_64 binaries, and am wondering the best way to do that.
I saw this thread ...
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How to emulate the C906 T-HEAD processor in QEMU
I am trying to setup QEMU to simulate T-HEAD's C906 processor in order to run benchmarks.
I have not yet found an image for C906 and I was wondering whether it's available somewhere?
I have tried ...
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Linux: Open three X clients in three different VTs with one BASH script
For fun recently I set up an old laptop with Archlinux for emulating ancient operating systems. I have startx which starts the i3 window manager, but I also wrote the following BASH scripts:
Start a ...
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Box86 can't find some specific libraries
I am trying to run some programs on an Ubuntu ARM64 machine with Box86 (in this case, Steam).
While starting up it crashes, and I noticed in the console the following errors:
Error loading needed lib ...
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86Box on Linux Slackware, how to enable networking with pcap?
I have successfully run an old UNix SVR4 guest on Slackware 15.0 host.
This is the config for unix "vm"
[General]
vid_renderer = qt_opengl3
confirm_save = 0
confirm_reset = 0
language = ...
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How to launch games in Dolphin: "Failed to create Vulkan surface." and "Failed to initialize video backend!"
In Debian11/KDE with Wayland I can't launch games anymore with the Dolphin emulator. Created a bug report with some more details here.
Don't know if that's due to building a newer version of Dolphin ...
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Running Mathpix Snipping Tool on aarch64 Linux
The software in question is Mathpix Snipping Tool, a really good OCR software for converting images of math equations into LaTeX code, which I use daily.
My hardware is a Chromebook running Ubuntu LTS ...
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vmmouse device in Qemu
I am running Qemu 7.0 with virt-manager on Centos 8 Stream and interested in absolute pointing devices as alternative to evtouch. I have read that since Qemu 0.9.1 also an absolute pointing device ...
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how to add an image file as usb to qemu that keeps changes?
I am adding an .img as usb in qemu running linux. When I try to mount and write to it (e.g. create a file), it works as expected and content is written. However the data isn't saved in the .img file. ...
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How do I install two different versions of the same application on SteamOS 3.0, an Arch Linux based OS?
Got a steamdeck recently and have been setting it up for emulation. It's running SteamOS 3.0 which, from what I could find, is based on Arch Linux. I need two versions of PPSSPP. The latest build for ...
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Is it possible to sandbox Wine in a way that mitigates all security risks from running Windows apps/games and having Wine installed?
And if that is more or less possible, how can it be done? Using firejail is probably part of it but not the full story.
I'd like to install Wine to be able to play Windows games that don't have native ...
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Is there any performance overhead due to android emulation on linux?
Is there any performance overhead due to android emulation on linux since android uses a linux kernel. Does it utilize the underlying kernel to achieve minimum performance overhead similar to a ...
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Pass a Linux virtual USB device into Windows host
The goal is:
Create a virtual USB web camera on Linux machine / Guest VM.
Connect it to a Windows machine / host.
Unfortunately, there is no way of using any hardware connections.
The plan is:
Use ...
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Can I run an x86 Virtualbox image on an ARM host?
Let's assume I have a laptop with ARM processor, such as the newer macbooks, and I have an x86 operating system (assuming no port to arm exists) image, for example an old linux distro where a ...
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Potential Reach of Windows Malware via Wine and Mono
Scenario: I have a desktop Ubuntu 21.04 system with Wine and Mono installed. The only program I run on Wine is VisiPics, a Windows photo comparison tool. VisiPics needs read-write access to the ...
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Emulate x86 on rasbian
I want to run a Starbound server on my Raspberry Pi running rasbian.
The server is built to run on an x86 architecture, so my goal is to emulate an x86 architecture to run the server.
Edit: box86 does ...
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How to set up TAP to bridge Ethernet and emulator?
I'm looking to set up an emulator so that its emulated Ethernet interface acts like a real one connected to my LAN. For this example, I'm going to use the address 192.168.120.6 for the Linux host on ...
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DNS issues running ARM docker container using qemu on x86
I am trying to run an arm docker container on my x86 machine with the goal to eventually compile an application in a CI build. To my surprise it started out quite promising.
I set up qemu-arm-static ...
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Raspberry Pi QEMU stuck on emergency mode
so I've been trying to boot up a raspberry pi using qemu but after I put start.bat in and let qemu work for a bit it says
It won't let me enter
My start.bat file has
qemu-system-arm -kernel kernel-...
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Is there a way to emulate HCI (Bluetooth) device on linux?
I'm working with a Bluetooth LE device in my project and I want to test bluetooth-related host code without having an actual Bluetooth device.
Currently, I have a Linux machine with BT dongle as a ...
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Emulation performace : x86 vs ARM [closed]
Some time ago I ran an ARM android image inside the android AVD in my x86 system and it was too slow to even move the cursor smoothly. Since it needs to actually translate ARM instructions to x86 on ...
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How do you emulate a numpad/keypad for use with design software (such as Blender)?
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When using certain software such as Blender, it is important to be able to have use of numpad that that the user can do things like orient themselves in the design space, but many laptops do ...
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Guest has not initialized the display (yet)
I'm trying to emulate a raspberry pi using an x86 system and qemu.
I'm trying to launch it like:
$ qemu-system-arm -kernel ~/Downloads/kernel-qemu-4.19.50-buster -cpu arm1176 -m 256 -M versatilepb -...
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Ubuntu 16.04: How to get libx86emu x86emu-demo to work?
Does anyone know how to get libx86emu x86emu-demo to work?
https://github.com/wfeldt/libx86emu
Test.bin
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Cross-arch Docker container will stop emulation
I'm trying to build a portable cross-arch Docker container using QEMU. However, depending on the host system and the programs installed on the host the container behaves differently.
Running the ...
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type string as if it were a keyboard
I have a bunch of unicode symbols in a file and a script to select and copy one of them (dmenuunicode script in this repository which I've forked). But instead pasting them I would like to save one ...
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How to emulate the NeWS window system
Is there a reasonably easy way to run NeWS (Network-extensible Window System, a PostScript-based window system made by researchers at Sun in the 1980s) on current computers?
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Unix Version 7 'learn' command (CAI) - additional configuration necessary?
I'm going through the 'Unix Programming Environment' classic by Kernighan and Pike.
I discovered there was a very interesting command written by Kernighan and someone else called learn for computer ...
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Transparent x86 emulation using QEMU on Raspbian
I'm trying to setup transparent x86 emulation on Raspbian according to this tutorial: https://wiki.debian.org/QemuUserEmulation. The issue is that after enabling multiarch and running sudo apt-get ...
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Simulating UVC webcam from v4l2loopback stream
Is there any way to emulate a USB camera device (UVC) from my v4l2loopback stream at /dev/video0, so my linux can recognize it as a real USB device?
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dosemu doesn't load MS-DOS Kernel [closed]
I would like to run MS-DOS 2.0 , that has been republished as free software, in dosemu.
I followed the instructions at www.dosemu.org and added
$_hdimage = "/home/absmeier/workbench/DOS/VM/DOSC"
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Behavior of QEMU as hypervisor
According to official QEMU documentation:
When used as a virtualizer, QEMU achieves near native performance by executing the guest code directly on the host CPU.
My question is how is this ...
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Problems Building Debian Wheezy Inside User Mode Linux
I am building a Debian virtual machine inside UML, but it is hanging.
Here is my shell script for the construction:
#!/bin/bash
# Let's make sure we're updated
printf "\nUpdating...\n"
apt update
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Command Line alternative to IsoBuster
I am trying to find a way to automate the process of merging multi-track .bin + .cue files into a single .bin and .cue. I have a collection of PSX roms, and they all come in bin and cue format. And ...
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freebsd 11 /usr/ports/emulators/ missing
I am trying to install Linux Compatability on my FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p9 #0.
I followed the guide at freebsd docs.
In particular, I successfully installed pkg install emulators/linux_base-c6.
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Ways to run old programs made for IRIX on MIPS?
I have a small collection of old, custom programs for IRIX on SGI MIPS, some of which I need to run for work related reasons because there are no modern alternatives available and we need to access ...
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Is the MMU (Memory Management Unit) chip necessary for a processor to have virtual memory support?
Is the MMU (Memory Management Unit) chip necessary for a processor to have virtual memory support?
Is it possible to emulate MMU functionality in software? (I am aware that it will probably have a ...
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Bochs TUN/TAP setup
I'm trying to set up a network with Bochs using TUN/TAP within Win98 on a Linux machine.
Here are some of my settings (in Windows 98):
IP Address
Specify IP address
IP Address: 192.168.1.2
Subnet ...
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USB Joystick support building VICE from source?
I'm building vice from source (r33116) in Ubuntu 14.04 and get this from ./configure:
INPUT
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Joystick support : yes
Mouse support : yes
Lightpen support : yes
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problem with qemu emulation, "black window!!"
I am running Ubuntu 16.04 x86, a kernel linux-4.9 and I followed this tutorial and everything works perfectly, but when I run qemu with:
qemu-system-arm -m vexpress -a9 \
-kernel linux-4.9/arch/arm/...
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Running a Solaris binary on SPARC without SPARC hardware
I have a historical binary ObjectGeode which is only able to work on SUN SPARC machine with Solaris OS (doesn't matter which Solaris version). My questions are:
How can I run the program without ...
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How to run a Raspiban in QEMU
How do you run a standard Raspbian image in QEMU?
I'm following the instructions in this wiki, but the first step is failing.
I downloaded the kernal kernel-qemu-4.1.13-jessie and the Raspbian ...
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Emulate Bluetooth LE Adapter for Acceptance Testing
I'm developing an Android app that captures Bluetooth LE signals and I'm a big fan of test driven and behaviour driven development. So, I want to develop my app by using TDD and BDD. When it comes to ...
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Wine or VirtualBox for Windows proprietary software installation?
I just bought a Windows proprietary software which appears to store license keys in their internet database right after installation. After purchasing, I was provided with 1 license key, and it is ...
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Unitary testing: emulating hardware connection or disconnection
I'm writing a program using libudev. And I want to write some tests. But, one of the functionalities of the program has to do with an usb drive being connected or disconnected.
I've read plenty of ...
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How can I simulate USB storage device connection with qemu?
I'm writing a program for controlling USB storage device connections (this is a classic subject). All it's ok with my program, but now, I want to write some tests. So in order to do that, I realized I'...
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Is there a common launcher for DosBox and ScummVM games?
ScummVM comes with a launcher for starting games. After a game is installed, it displays the names in a window that can be run at full-screen and that can be controlled by the keyboard. Other games ...
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