Riscv

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). That covers the two architectures most people care about. But some of my snaps are built for more… exotic architectures. Things like s390x, ppc64el, and riscv64.