Installing embedded Debian (emDebian) to QEMU

• Download and install QEMU on your Linux PC: [AS ROOT]
  “sudo apt-get install qemu”
• Make a new folder for QEMU:
  “cd qemu”
• Emulate a 10GB hard-disk, size depends for the needs:
  “qemu-img create -f qcow hda.img 10G”
• Choosen architecture is MIPSEL for this example:
  “wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-mipsel/current/images/qemu/netboot/vmlinux-2.6.18-6-qemu”
  “wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-mipsel/current/images/qemu/netboot/initrd.gz”
• Installing Debian:
  “qemu-system-mipsel -M mips -kernel vmlinux-2.6.18-6-qemu -initrd initrd.gz -hda hda.img -append “root=/dev/ram console=ttyS0″ -nographic”
• Fist boot:
  “qemu-system-mipsel -M mips -kernel vmlinux-2.6.18-6-qemu -hda hda.img -append “root=/dev/hda1 console=ttyS0″ -nographic”
• QEMU MIPSEL platform in emdebian:

My next post will be about running OpenCV on embedded Debian.

References:
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[3.] http://dev.emcelettronica.com/installing-debian-arm-qemu