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 ).
QEM…
IMPORTANT: This tutorial has been mostly superseded by Testing Mender with QEMU ARM64 . So unless you have very specific requirements, use the QEMU ARM64 tutorial.
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 QEM…