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Hi,

for integration tests I'd like to have a "virtual" Revolution Pi Core3 where I can execute /usr/bin/piSerial, ifconfig, systemctl, /opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd. Do you provide any Docker image or VM of the RevolutionPi OS that I can use for that? If not how would you recommend to go approach building a docker image for this?

Hi Stephan,
sorry but we do not provide such images or tools for the RevPi. Maybe someone from the community might help you with that topic.

You should use a VM; docker images may have restricted root access, breaking lots of stuff.

If you run a stock debian image, you should get close enough; if you don't depend on specific hardware or drivers to be present.
Maybe match the installed packages to those installed on the revpi (dpkg -l).

ifconfig (please use "ip" instead. ifconfig has been obsolete for almost 20 years!) and systemctl are available on debian.
piSerial can be rewritten easily: I have no idea about vcgencmd. You might need to write a dummy version of it too. Or perhaps there already is an official emulator.

Thank you for your support and script. I actually went with creating a docker image based on debian arm32v7 that contains a piSerial, vcgencmd, revpi-config as well as a revpi-factory-reset script. It is by far no copy of the real Kunbus Raspbian. Though it's good enough for my use case. If there's interest I can share what I did on GitHub.

Interested, please share!

Sorry it took so long, had to finish some other things first.

A very minimalistic and basic RevPi docker image can be found here: https://hub.docker.com/r/sthuber90/revpi/

The sources, as well as details for python and nodeJS flavoured Docker images are available here: https://github.com/sthuber90/revpi-docker

stephan wrote: ↑27 Aug 2018, 12:22 Sorry it took so long, had to finish some other things first.

Absolutely no worries and thanks for sharing!