(Please feel free to move the post if it is not appropriate here.)

 

I'm trying the build environment on VirtualBox and modifying settings and adding new scripting. I have had a habit of testing each modification right away, but the compile/burn/on-device-test is not logical.

 

How can I emulate a device / setup / install process? Is there any way?

 

If you will be able to run your app on Debian / Ubuntu it will also run on Armbian. VirtualBox / KVM with standard install should do.

 

If you are talking about testing hardware features, then, we do it this way:

https://github.com/armbian/autotests

 

Also we are developing a hardware to make a complete test automatically:

First version of the board:

Thank you Igor, I already had examined them briefly. Very nice work indeed... But not applicable for my case (I think)... I'm not bulk-producing...

 

What I'm trying to do (for now) is simply adding some drivers, adding some scripting to customize-image.sh, such as additions to motd, several users/groups/rights management, pre-installing some additional software through apt-get, adding some custom scripts under /usr/local/bin etc.

 

Testing this would require installation of the customized Armbian and checking the logs etc.

 

Is there a working armhf emulator for x32-64? That would ease the burden alot... I found QEMU just now, did you try it?

My development environment is on Win 10 and I don't mind speed loss caused by emulation.

 

Or I'm really missing the point :/

 

23 minutes ago, bozden said:

Is there a working armhf emulator for x32-64? That would ease the burden alot... I found QEMU just now, did you try it?

Yes its is. But. The only image that I manage to boot - didn't really put much efforts to see if any else - was Cubieboard 1.  But that was long time ago ...

Yes, they only have cubieboard and Rpi 2 included in base.  I wonder if people have created others.

 

I can guess that it will fail at kernel level if a board is not modeled.

 

I'll stick with writing better code and testing all in one for now...

 

For anybody reading this: Most of the debugging for your setup routines can be done just by looking inside generated image file.

Of course I have to burn the sd-card and run on actual device at the end...