How to run x86 on arm

novaspirit · April 15, 2019, 10:46pm

Originally published at: https://www.novaspirit.com/2019/04/15/run-x86-arm/

This is a guide on how to run x86 on ARM including wine! I have put a lot of time and effort into creating this guide along with breaking down a few older tutorials to give you guys a up to date guide on running x86 on arm (i.e raspberry pi or tinkerboard). Hope you…

diegombejar · April 18, 2019, 12:54pm

Hi, thanks for the tutorial.
I’m having a problem after the step of compiling the Kernel. When I try to run the command: root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# debootstrap --foregin –-arch i386 stretch ./chroot-stretch-i386 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian

I receive the following error:

E: unrecognized or invalid option --foregin

So I’ve tried change the parameter --foregin for --foreign and the error changed to:
No such script: ./chroot-stretch-i386

Could you help me, please.

Thanks in advance from Brazil.

Diego

crockettm · April 25, 2019, 9:00am

Hello Diegombejar,

I had the same problem along with other problems with the install. so far I have up and running. The only problem is that I am having trouble with installing software with wine.

below are the steps that I performed.

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install -y qemu qemu-user qemu-user-static binfmt-support debootstrap binutils

sudo apt-get install -y debian-keyring
sudo apt-get install -y debian-archive-keyring

sudo debootstrap --foreign --arch i386 stretch ./chroot-stretch-i386 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian

sudo mount -t sysfs sys ./chroot-stretch-i386/sys/
sudo mount -t proc proc ./chroot-stretch-i386/proc/
sudo mount --bind /dev ./chroot-stretch-i386/dev/
sudo mount --bind /dev/pts ./chroot-stretch-i386/dev/pts/
sudo mount --bind /dev/shm ./chroot-stretch-i386/dev/shm/

sudo cp /usr/bin/qemu-i386-static ./chroot-stretch-i386/usr/bin/

sudo chroot ./chroot-stretch-i386/ /debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage

sudo chroot /home/pi/chroot-stretch-i386/ /bin/su -l root

add to .bashrc

export LANGUAGE=“C”
export LC_ALL=“C”
export DISPLAY=:0

source ~/.bashrc

apt update

add pi user to chroot

adduser -uid 1000 pi

installing leafpad

apt install leafpad

sudo chroot /home/pi/chroot-stretch-i386/ /bin/su -l pi

export LANGUAGE=“C”
export LC_ALL=“C”
export DISPLAY=:0

wget --no-check-certificate https://www.playonlinux.com/wine/binaries/linux-x86/PlayOnLinux-wine-3.9-linux-x86.pol

Dubz9 · April 30, 2019, 7:20pm

I followed the guide and i was able to run notepad++.
When i tried to run Teamspeak3 Server i get the next error.

Can someone help me solve this ?

pi@raspberrypi:~$ cd tsserver/
pi@raspberrypi:~/tsserver$ wine ts3server.exe
0009:err:winediag:gnutls_initialize failed to load libgnutls, no support for encryption
0009:err:winediag:schan_imp_init Failed to load libgnutls, secure connections will not be available.
000f:err:seh:raise_exception Exception frame is not in stack limits => unable to dispatch exception.
wine client error:f: read: Bad file descriptor

edit:

I tried to follow the guide on Exagear to run TS3 Server (skipping the exagear install and doing the command with the root / pi chroot methode from “x86 on arm” guide
and then i get this error

root@raspberrypi:~# /usr/local/teamspeak/teamspeak3-server_linux_x86/ts3server_minimal_runscript.sh
2019-04-30 17:32:59.712794|INFO |ServerLibPriv | |TeamSpeak 3 Server 3.7.1 (2019-03-28 07:46:26)
2019-04-30 17:32:59.743498|INFO |ServerLibPriv | |SystemInformation: Linux 4.19.36-v7+ #1 SMP Mon Apr 29 21:34:00 BST 2019 i686 Binary: 32bit
2019-04-30 17:32:59.746064|WARNING |ServerLibPriv | |The system locale is set to “C” this can cause unexpected behavior. We advice you to repair your locale!
2019-04-30 17:32:59.803395|INFO |DatabaseQuery | |dbPlugin version: 3.11.1
qemu: uncaught target signal 11 (Segmentation fault) - core dumped
Segmentation fault

only need to have 1 of these 2 running , i don’t know wich would be easier to fix.
Thanks in advance

Botspot · May 2, 2019, 9:19pm

I completed the tutorial successfully, but I had several problems on the way due to typos in the tutorial.

The tutorial said this:
sudo debootstrap –foregin –arch i386 stretch ./chroot-stretch-i386 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian
And later said this:
$ sudo mount –bind /dev ./chroot-stretch-i386/dev/
$ sudo mount –bind /dev/pts ./chroot-stretch-i386/dev/pts/
$ sudo mount –bind /dev/shm ./chroot-stretch-i386/dev/shm/
I had to change all the long dashes, “–”, to two short dashes, “–”, corrected the typo “–foregin” to “–foreign”, and then the commands ran without errors.
The website said this: export DISPLAY=:0l. Turns out that was not a 1. Nor an I or an l. So I had to change it to export DISPLAY=:01, and then the command worked.

I also had to modify the desktop shortcuts before they worked.
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Comment=Start Wine x86 Environment
Name=Wine x86 User
Exec=sudo /usr/sbin/chroot /home/pi/chroot-stretch-i386/ /bin/su -l pi
Icon=
Terminal=true
Categories=Utility
StartupNotify=True
X-KeepTerminal=true

Botspot · May 2, 2019, 9:20pm

Are you cd’ed into the directory you downloaded the x86 linux?

novaspirit · July 8, 2019, 2:34pm

i have updated the write up to reflect the two dashes. thanks for pointing that out

MikeLimon · August 29, 2019, 10:22pm

hi!!
it shows me: “Bus error” when i’m trying to run wine, do you know how to solve this?

novaspirit · September 6, 2019, 3:06pm

i managed to get x86 running on raspberry pi 4. upgrading the buster from stretch will indeed break it again with bus error

BOC · November 9, 2019, 10:57am

I get an error:
sudo chroot ./chroot-stretch-i386/ /debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage
I: Keyring file not available at /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg; switching to https mirror https://mirrors.kernel.org/debian
W: Failure trying to run: /sbin/ldconfig
W: See //debootstrap/debootstrap.log for details

in the log
/debootstrap/debootstrap: 905: /debootstrap/debootstrap: /sbin/ldconfig: Exec format error

I understand that it’s due to not being able to specify the debian source.
How can I fix it?