Emulating ARM Raspberry Pi hardware platforms inside qemu-system-arm on an x86_64 Ubuntu workstation enables kernel driver testing without physical development boards.

QEMU Raspberry Pi Emulation Command

Terminal Commandsbash
# Boot Raspberry Pi 2B ARM board emulation under QEMU
qemu-system-arm \
    -M raspi2b \
    -kernel kernel7.img \
    -sd raspios.img \
    -append "rw earlycon=pl011,0x3f201000 console=ttyAMA0 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootwait" \
    -nographic