I haven’t heard about anyone using it like this (but I can’t say it is like that). But, on the other side, I can confirm people successfully implemented QEMU ready images using mender from a Debian-based systems and a Yocto-based systems.
These links could be helpful:
Board description
QEMU (short for Quick Emulator ) is a free and open-source emulator that performs hardware virtualization.
QEMU is a hosted virtual machine monitor, it emulates the machine’s processor through dynamic and provides a set of different hardware and device models for the machine, enabling it to run a variety of guest operating systems. It also can be used with KVM to run virtual machines at near-native speed (by taking advantage of hardware extensions such as Intel VT-x ).
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Yocto Project consists of recipes, dependencies and metadata to instruct the build system how to build software packages for installation into a target embedded operating system.
The official Mender documentation explains how Mender works. This is a board-specific complement to the official documentation for the QEMU platform.
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