Running Raspbian in QEMU

gAr · 2014-02-28 01:21:23

Do the following to test mathematica bundled in the recent raspberry pi's OS.

Get the latest raspbian: http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads (2014-01-07-wheezy-raspbian.zip as of today)
Download and compile QEMU. Follow http://xecdesign.com/compiling-qemu/. Instead of cloning from git as shown there, download the zipped code and decompress it to a directory. So run the following command instead:

sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev libsdl1.2-dev libpixman-1-dev

After going through that link and making sure, compile. We may use the home directory to install.

$ ./configure --target-list="arm-softmmu arm-linux-user" --enable-sdl --prefix=/home/<user dir>/qemu
$ make
$ make install

Unzip the raspbian, copy the .img file and kernel-qemu to /home/<user dir>/qemu/bin

Follow the steps given here: http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=37386

I think these are sufficient. Some more links for reference:
http://mathgis.blogspot.in/2013/12/testing-wolfram-language-on-raspberry.html
http://www.raspberry-projects.com/pi/programming-in-c/compilers-and-ides/eclipse-raspberry-pi/installing-eclipse-on-qemu-emulated-raspberry-pi-windows
http://sebpiq.github.io/rpi-workshop-instructions/index.html

It may take about 5 minutes from the start of raspbian to the mathematica front-end, computations would be much slower than running it natively, but faster than getting the answers from wolframalpha. Anyway, running Mathematica on Rpi or in QEMU doesn't make much difference, gives timing almost the same as shown here: http://www.walkingrandomly.com/?p=5220
and BogoMIPS shown is 452.19 in QEMU, which is lower than Rpi's value of about 700. (command: cat /proc/cpuinfo)

So, other than simulations and big matrix operations, it's usable!

bobbym · 2014-02-28 23:06:31

Hi gAr;

Would you please check the version of your Mathematica.

gAr · 2014-03-01 01:32:46

Yes, it's version 10, not even out for PC.

bobbym · 2014-03-01 01:45:29

That is very good then.

gAr · 2014-03-01 01:55:17

Yes, I can use it for a few functions like obtaining a gf, which is not yet available in sage.

bobbym · 2014-03-01 01:58:31

I have not tried either of them yet but I heard that Virtual box or VMware are faster than QEMU.

gAr · 2014-03-01 02:08:01

Yeah, but I think they don't support ARM.

bobbym · 2014-03-01 02:10:34

What is arm?

gAr · 2014-03-01 02:15:44

another CPU architecture.

bobbym · 2014-03-01 02:19:21

I see, you mean the raspberry machines architecture.

gAr · 2014-03-01 02:23:29

yes, most of the smartphones also have that architecture.

bobbym · 2014-03-01 02:25:07

I did not know that. Thanks for the information.

Agnishom · 2014-03-01 02:30:03

Hi;

Are you sure that the 780 MB Raspberrian zip contains Mathematica 10? Mathematica 9 for PC itself is around 1.6 GB

gAr · 2014-03-01 02:53:49

You're welcome.

Hi Agnishom,

Yes, it includes v10. The zipped file has raspbian image which is 3GB.

Agnishom · 2014-03-01 03:57:43

It has a got a frontend? Like the PC version?

and the documentation pages?

Last edited by Agnishom (2014-03-01 03:58:03)

gAr · 2014-03-01 05:18:31

Yes, frontend just like a PC version.

Documentation is not available in it, we have to rely on online docs.

Last edited by gAr (2014-03-01 05:43:24)

Agnishom · 2014-03-01 17:38:11

Very Good! looks like LXDE?

gAr · 2014-03-01 18:43:36

That's right.

Agnishom · 2014-03-02 16:47:05

Just curious, what DE do you use?

gAr · 2014-03-02 19:01:43

I use MATE.

Agnishom · 2014-03-02 19:05:10

on OpenSUSE?

Why did you choose that?

gAr · 2014-03-02 19:10:20

No, linux mint.
I'm used to its applets. Do you use LXDE? Can I have multiple panels in that?

Agnishom · 2014-03-02 19:18:51

I've used LXDE. I think you can.

EDIT: Confirmed, yes you can

Last edited by Agnishom (2014-03-02 19:21:27)

gAr · 2014-03-02 19:24:44

Okay, I'll see.
I'm thinking of installing debian, and compile the latest kernel for only the hardware I use.

Agnishom · 2014-03-02 19:27:27

Why would you want to install debian replacing Mint? Isn't Mint already debian based?

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