I tested the download with the qemu and the raspian image. I changed the run.bat with: qemu-system-arm.exe -k de -M versatilepb -cpu arm1176 -hda 2012-07-15-wheezy-raspbian.img -kernel kernel-qemu -m 192 -append "root=/dev/sda2" -redir tcp:2222::22 To get -k de working I had to copy the folder qemu\...