>>168 qemu is fantastic don't get me wrong i just find using VM's for like "more regular use" instead of like testing like code really clunky. and with the risc-v stuff yeah it's def a bunch of work though vf2 has some meh documentation but it was pretty popular for a while so it had decent user porting efforts (plus working with it baremetal myself) the bootstrapping isn't too bad from my experience (though really you'll be writing drivers from scratch in most cases anyway)
qemu is fantastic don't get me wrong i just find using VM's for like "more regular use" instead of like testing like code really clunky. and with the risc-v stuff yeah it's def a bunch of work though vf2 has some meh documentation but it was pretty popular for a while so it had decent user porting efforts (plus working with it baremetal myself) the bootstrapping isn't too bad from my experience (though really you'll be writing drivers from scratch in most cases anyway)