[Help] RetroPie Virtual Emulation with QEMU

[BuZz]

just manually set the platform sudo __platform=whatever ./retropie-setup.sh

note retropie-setup works with qemu, but things like ES will not.

[Zigurana]

@BuZz : why not, too slow?
I was hoping I could use QEMU for ES dev...

[BuZz]

@Zigurana the RPI gpu hardware is not emulated. You could do es dev in windows or Linux on virtual box.

[Zigurana]

@BuZz thanks for the suggestion, I'll have a look at it.

[BuZz]

@padremayi the fact you can run x11 doesn't mean the GPU is emulated.

[BuZz]

@padremayi i doubt it. you can run RetroPie on virtual box emulating x86 though.

[BuZz]

@padremayi which program? You can compile and run es on Linux / windows for example. You can cross compile for RPI or using qemu, even if you cant run all software.

[BuZz]

@padremayi RetroPie is not an os. The premade image is raspbian. Python will work fine on qemu.

[BuZz]

@padremayi no. RetroPie images for the RPI and raspbian use the same kernels. The raspbian image is just more up to date.

The kernel wont affect a python program.

[BuZz]

@padremayi Because the RPI hardware is not all emulated.