pi-rat Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 Hello, is there something like a VirtualBox that can emulate a BP(M1) hardware, that can run Armbian inside? I'm looking for a way to set up a new Armbian system for a BPM1, without having to shut down the running one longer than absolutely necessary. I have done this before with Linux servers: I installed and configured a hole server inside a VirtualBox alongside my normal computer work, then I copied the image to the real disk and swapped the disks, with a downtime of only about 5 minutes. So I was wondering if this was possible with the BananaPi as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted December 30, 2019 Share Posted December 30, 2019 1 hour ago, pi-rat said: So I was wondering if this was possible with the BananaPi as well. You will need to make support. The only (Armbian) image that I manage to boot with actual kernel under QEMU was Cubieboard 1 (A10):https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms/ARMhttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-10/msg01401.html Setting up a NFS boot with or without FEL or using special kernelhttps://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_FEL-boot/ is the only way to get closer to this. Welcome to non x86 world Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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