#Raspi remote dcommand line software#

The same applies to what I just said about raspi-config, because those configurations are mostly in text files. This is something you can do quickly and easily by putting the card in an x86-64 box. WRT systemd, if all you are talking about is adding and removing services, this just requires creating and deleting symlinks in a very, very straightforward way - I presume that is by design, since what it means is you can do it without using systemctl, or the system running, or even a binary compatible system to do it on. It is mostly about altering on-disk configuration in ways that are not hard to do manually, and, since it is just a few thousand lines of POSIX shell code, most of which is very simple, all you need to do is read it to find out what to do (and/or when in doubt, ask here about it since deciphering raspi-config is solidly on topic). Pretty much everything I can think of that raspi-config does (which surely isn't everything, but in general:) doesn't really require a running system. What I would recommend is considering whether everything you want to do really requires this (ie., is this an XY problem). You'll need to investigate that part, there should be enough stuff here an online generally ('pi QEMU') - but TBH that would be by far my last choice anyway, I suspect minimally this is an afternoon worth of fiddling the first time.

#Raspi remote dcommand line software#

software for the pi but you need to use a special OS image (ie., the card won't do). That said, I haven't used QEMU for this, and I think there's a restriction there whereby you can use it to develop, compile etc. So you are running a system inside a system, there is no chroot involved. QEMU is a hardware emulator, more broadly a 'virtual machine', if you've used a VM of any sort, same idea (but most VMs are not hardware emulators). Just as software compiled for an x86-64 system cannot be run on a Pi. You can't do that with a Pi card on an x86-64 system because the software on the card was compiled for a different ISA. You would need an emulator (QEMU being the one and only option I'm aware of there).Ī bit more detail: Chroot (change root) is a command to switch the root filesystem inside a running OS. If by 'chroot in' you meant, put the card in your x86-64 machine and chroot into it there to run systemctl and raspi-config, that isn't 'asking for problems' it simply will never work - the system on the card is not compatible and cannot be run on an x86-64. Chroot into the Zero, although doing this from my x86_64 machine looks to be asking for problems,