Re: QEMU: Run a container of a different architecture

[Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk>]

On Wed, 21 Aug 2024, Steve Keller wrote:

> Can I run a container for a different CPU architecture using
> systemd-nspawn?  I can easily install on my amd64 host a Debian
> container of the same architecture and run that:

Don't know about systemd-nspawn but I do something like this using
unshare, binfmt-support and qemu-user-static.

I don't have to do anything at all other than create the file system
with the emulated architecture and then chroot into it with those
packages installed.

$ apt-mark showmanual | grep binf
binfmt-support
$ apt-mark showmanual | grep qemu
qemu-user-static


I don't think I installed anything else but I might have missed
something.

Perhaps systemd-nspawn would similarly work with those packages
installed.

Tim.