How to emulate an ARM architecture under OSX 10.6 ("Snow Leopard")?

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I wish to emulate an ARM architecture (I wish to compile software for my DNS-323 NAS drive, to be more precise) and I'm having a hard time. First I tried installing Q, which is an OSX port of QEMU. It freezes when I try to launch it. Then I tried to download the source code for QEMU and apply a patch someone had written to compile QEMU under Leopard, but that isn't working either. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Accepted Answer

UPDATE: looks like SkyEye project is (almost) dead now. It's still available on sourceforge.

But qemu is better now. It can be installed from `macports` or `brew`:

```
brew install qemu
```

or

```
sudo port install qemu +target_arm
```

Try SkyEye. SkyEye is an Open Source Simulator, which simulates series ARM and other Processor. The goal of SkyEye is to provide an integrated simulation environment in Linux and Windows. But it can be build for Mac OS X too.

I can't find complete information on Mac build, but check this:

- SkyEye simulator 1.0.0 released! (Supports MAC OS/X)

- [Skyeye-developer] Skeyey on Mac OSX initial fix

- Problems with Skyeye the ARM simulator on Mac OS X

- Google :)

How to emulate an ARM architecture under OSX 10.6 ("Snow Leopard")?

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