Can you explain the reasoning behind wanting to do this?

>>55178186
Two reasons

First, the pi is the slowest device I own, and for the project I'm working on it would be nice to iterate quickly.

Second, after I have the image i want, I can wipe the SD card and replace it at will

yeah, but you have to use a different kernel, which is possible with QEMU. not sure how well your set up programs work when you run it with the pi kernel, rest assured that probably all packages that use specific x86 code will break once the real arm kernel is used.

just plug the fucker in, ssh into it and set everything up. not worth the hassle

>>55178336
I'd like to set it up once and be able to reproduce it. Is it worth learning ansible or something, or should i just set it up manually and dd the card when I'm done?

>>55178173
install gentoo on it

>>55178396
yeah set one up to your liking, clone the sd card with dd and put it on other pis, that works just fine.

>>55178313
have you considered cross compiling the project?

>>55178672
Is there a good ARM cross compiler for x86?

>>55178672
It's more of a configuration-heavy project. That's what I meant by reproducible. The code is a lot of bash and python, so not really a candidate for cross-compilation.
>>55178672
I'll probably go with this, thank you.

>>55178173

Is your project something you could get into a docker image? I'm not an expert, but it was designed so that you can bundle your app with all its dependencies.