Install QEMU OSX port with ARM support
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" && brew update && brew install qemu export QEMU=$(which qemu-system-arm) brew install wget
get stretch kernel, device tree and raspbian image
wget https://github.com/dhruvvyas90/qemu-rpi-kernel/raw/master/kernel-qemu-4.9.59-stretch export RPI_KERNEL=./kernel-qemu-4.9.59-stretch wget https://github.com/dhruvvyas90/qemu-rpi-kernel/raw/master/versatile-pb.dtb wget http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2018-11-15/2018-11-13-raspbian-stretch.zip unzip 2018-11-13-raspbian-stretch.zip export RPI_FS=./2018-11-13-raspbian-stretch.img
Here make sure to reference the .img file in the last EXPORT and not the .zip file as per original instructions.
Tweak filesystem: start qemu with init flag, switch to guest window to execute tweak and close window afterwards
$QEMU -kernel $RPI_KERNEL -cpu arm1176 -m 256 -dtb versatile-pb.dtb -M versatilepb -no-reboot -serial stdio -append "root=/dev/sda2 panic=1 rootfstype=ext4 rw init=/bin/bash" -drive "file=2018-11-13-raspbian-stretch.img,index=0,media=disk,format=raw"
So at this point you should get the emulator window and a terminal you can add the following commands in.
sed -i -e 's/^/#/' /etc/ld.so.preload sed -i -e 's/^/#/' /etc/ld.so.conf sed -i -e 's/^/#/' /etc/fstab
Exit that and the next command will start the actual raspberry pi emulation.
Emulate Raspberry Pi
$QEMU -kernel $RPI_KERNEL -cpu arm1176 -m 256 -dtb versatile-pb.dtb -M versatilepb -no-reboot -serial stdio -append "root=/dev/sda2 panic=1 rootfstype=ext4 rw" -drive "file=2018-11-13-raspbian-stretch.img,index=0,media=disk,format=raw" -net user,hostfwd=tcp::5022-:22 -net nic
Available over network with this SSH command.
Login to Raspberry Pi
ssh -p 5022 pi@localhost