Ubuntu ARM on Intel host?

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I've read snippets here and there that there is a way to install the Ubuntu ARM version on a Proxmox host running Intel Xeon chips. E5-2690 to be exact.
I cannot find anything that confirms this or shares what virtual CPU I should be using when trying to install such an OS.

Can anyone share some input?
My goal is to have an ARM based vm where I can develop ARM projects using QT Creator.
 
AFIK emulating an ARM cpu with a x86-64 one causes something like 99% performance penalty, but that's a long time ago. Maybe things has changed since then.
 
I'd be happy to test it if I could find information on which CPU type and other settings to use.
If I could emulate an ARM device on proxmox, it would save me a ton of work trying to use smaller, slower devices.
 
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I would suggest a Raspberry Pi, which is low-cost, powerful enough to handle most things you can throw at the small board and it has a real ARM cpu.

Anyway, here's QEMU's doc for emulating ARM cpu:
https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/target-arm.html

I don't think there's Web UI for this in PVE so you'll probably have to roll on your own using QEMU;s cli.
 
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That's what I've been using but wanted to see if I could take advantage of the more powerful vm host emulating an ARM CPU.

The only Orange Pi I see doesn't seem to be the one I need to develop for, which is the Orange Pi 3B.
 
It's a moot point after all. There is a QT Creator version for ARM but it's quite messy using source. I'll go with x86.
 
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