This is about user-mode QEMU, for which the question of "board" doesn't even apply - it runs on your host computer. https://qemu-project.gitlab.io/qemu/user/mai

This is about user-mode QEMU, for which the question of "board" doesn't even apply - it runs on your host computer. https://qemu-project.gitlab.io/qemu/user/main.html https://qemu-project.gitlab.io/qemu/user/main.html Since the author's goal is to test userspace applications on Linux, not kernels or entire OSes, the choice of board should be irrelevant even if you're using full system emulation. For instance, there's the "virt" board: https://qemu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/system/arm/virt.html https://qemu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/system/arm/virt.html