Raspberry Pi emulation is broken

[Rastafabisch]

Raspberry images do not boot, as there is no suitable raspberry output device.
No PCI on raspberry to emulate display adapter. Neither vertigo based adapters work.

Configuration

• UTM Version: 4.0.9
• macOS Version: 13.1
• Mac Chip (Intel, M1, ...): M1 Pro

[freebrowser1]

Weird.
A Raspberry Pi is native ARM64 (aka M1) architecture, so any Ubuntu / Debian ARM should run Raspberry PI OS.

[Rastafabisch]

Of course any arm64 system runs on M1s. The issue is when specifically emulating a raspberry, that you don't even get to boot as the environment emulated doesn't have an adequate graphics output.

[LostInCompilation]

Can confirm. I never got it working, tested all available display adapters.

A Raspberry Pi is native ARM64 (aka M1) architecture, so any Ubuntu / Debian ARM should run Raspberry PI OS.

UTM only has options up to Pi 3. Those are 32 bit (ARMhf) devices. A 64 bit image probably won't work with Pi 3 selected.
Would be nice to have a Pi 4 option added.

[rannof]

Same here, Trying to emulate RPI 3B 32bit with error:
QEMU exited from an error: qemu-arm-softmmu: -device e1000e,mac=D2:FC:44:5E:D3:79,netdev=net0: No 'PCI' bus found for device 'e1000e'
Are there any workable configurations?

[flatsiedatsie]

I ran into this too. I was following this guide (from 2022), which made me believe that it was theoretically possible. I now understand it's not possible to emulate a Raspberry Pi?

[LostInCompilation]

QEMU by itself definitely supports Raspberry Pi images. But somehow UTM seems to have some issues.
You can use QEMU by itself until UTM works: https://azeria-labs.com/emulate-raspberry-pi-with-qemu/

[markst]

Am able to use QEMU on Mac OS Ventura using the following params for network:

-netdev user,id=net0,hostfwd=tcp::5022-:22 \
-device usb-net,netdev=net0 \

Seems UTM insists on using PCI device on which Raspberry Pi with no PCI bus.

#153 (comment)

[ivazin]

Is there already any working way to run Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit) on UTM with Apple Silicon?

[NickJLange]

Is there already any working way to run Raspberry Pi OS (64-bit) on UTM with Apple Silicon?

No, but it is not that far away.
See this Guide

What's missing seems to be getting the UTM Qemu backend updated to version 8... but qemu does work.

[fgenoese]

One of the issues seems to be that 'ich9-usb-ehci1' is automatically added with no possibility to prevent it from GUI.

See here:
#2505 (comment)

[aaronlippold]

Is there an active PR to update the backend already?

[DanLipsitt]

Updating QEMU to version 8 is #5622, although that ticket points out that QEMU 9 is out now.

[aaronlippold]

Cool. So does that mean this work would shift over to the version nine branch

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[daza85]

Any updates I have been trying to run my existing RPI4 .img in UTM for hours but never seem to get an image to display or see it's MAC appear in my router device table!