Building QEMU 7.0 on Raspberry Pi OS

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The Introduction

And spring 2022 brings us another major release of QEMU – in this case, QEMU 7.0, available in all of its tar.xz’d loveliness directly from qemu.org.

Whilst the Raspberry Pi OS‘s package repository remains the fastest, simplest way to get QEMU onto your Pi, Pi OS’s Debian lineage often leaves it trailing the cutting edge – in the case of QEMU, the packaged release for Raspberry Pi OS (version 2022-04-04) is version 5.2 from way back in December 2020.

QEMU can be installed via the Raspberry Pi OS package manager – or via ‘apt install’ on the command line. Alas, the version offered is several years behind the latest release.

Fortunately, QEMU is fairly easy to download and compile ourselves.

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Map Stuff – Early August 2022 Update

And another 2026 map images from the ‘Ordnance Survey Maps – Six-inch England and Wales, 1842-1952’ series:

Lancashire – 1664 Maps

Interesting places covered in Lancashire include:

Liverpool

Manchester

Blackpool

Warwickshire – 462 Maps

Interesting places covered in Warwickshire include:

Birmingham

Nuneaton

Warwick

Maps – Early July 2022 Update

I’ve added another 1108 map images:

422 maps from Cardiganshire.
686 maps from Cornwall.

Cardiganshire

A rather colourful image of Aberystwyth circa 1887

Interesting places covered in Cardiganshire include: Aberystwyth, Lampeter, and Aberaeron.

Cornwall

…And St Michael’s Mount. Again circa 1887.

Interesting places covered in Cornwall include: St Ives, Lands End, and St. Michael’s Mount