ARM emulator for prototyping

Discussion in 'Parallels Desktop for Mac Feature Suggestions' started by RedFoxy Darrest, Apr 28, 2017.

  1. RedFoxy Darrest

    RedFoxy Darrest Bit poster

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    Hi!
    I do a lot of work with Raspberry Pi, Arduino and ESP8266, it will be wonderful if you'll support that board in your VM, like a way to install and use Raspbian and other distro about that boards, I'd really like to make all my test with Raspberry Pi directly with a virtual machine that emulate the GPIO pins, it will be a wonderful platform to learn and test it
     
  2. Specimen

    Specimen Product Expert

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    Well, you are asking for an emulator/simulator, meaning a program that emulates a different architecture, that's not what PDM does, Parallels runs OSs that run on the same architecture as the Host which is Intel x86/x64. Not that this couldn't be added to PDM, but it's a totally different program.

    You might want to google arduino/raspberry Pi simulator/emulator.
    Or check this out: https://circuits.io/
     
  3. RedFoxy Darrest

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    mmm that's true, sorry :p
     
  4. Ajith1

    Ajith1 Parallels Support

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    Thank you for sharing your feedback. Yes, @Specimen is right. You cannot emulate/ simulate different architectures in Parallels Desktop. You can use Autodesk's Circuits or PartSim simulator.
     
  5. JamesF23

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    Of course now that the Macintosh is running on the ARM architecture, it would be nice to be able to import a Raspberry Pi image to host a Raspberry Pi virtual machine.
     

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