Running RISC-V in a VM to test my snaps
tl;dr: I wanted to test one of my snaps on riscv64. I don’t own any RISC-V hardware. I set up a QEMU VM on my ThinkPad, installed Ubuntu desktop inside it, and it actually worked. Slowly. Very slowly. But it worked.
I maintain nearly 50 snaps in the Snap Store. Most of the time I test things on my ThinkPad running Ubuntu 24.04 (amd64), or my MacBook Air running Ubuntu Asahi (arm64).
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