Downloads. HOWTO: Virtual Raspbian on Qemu in Ubuntu Linux 12.10. How to chroot RPI envoronment. Keep in mind this took me so many hours to figure out it's not even funny. I'm not exactly a nix guru by any means of the word. The 1st part sucks as it is how you get the img ready. There are two ways to do it but I found it easier just to do it this way. The hard way is to use gemu to expand the img file and then some fancy fdisk stuff in the image to expand. My Way: I do this part all in windows so if you're a linux user you will need to know how to do dd and other linuxy things.
Download the latest Raspbian 2013-02-09-wheezy-raspbian.img from unzip it. Write to your SD Card [8 gig is plenty ] I use win32diskimager Once completed insert SD into your RPI and boot it. Run through initial setup screen paying attention to the "expand rootfs" as this one is really the only one of two parts that matter. Exit and reboot log in !! Main Page. QEMU. VMware Workstation: Run Multiple OS, Linux, Windows 8 & More; Oracle VM VirtualBox.