Quick and dirty Raspberry PI qemu virtual machine for development.
Tested on Debian Wheezy + qemu 1.7.0.
You probably need to apt-get a bunch of stuff first.
./pi_qemu_build.sh /path/to/raspbian_install.img base.qcow2 # <-- creates base.qcow2 and snapshot.qcow2
./pi_qemu_run.sh snapshot.qcow2
# now update the setup application and set pi password, etc., reboot and π's your aunty.
See this article [1] for what these scripts automate, and for where the kernel image comes from.
Note that older Qemu may be subject to the bug described at http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=65641
[1] http://xecdesign.com/qemu-emulating-raspberry-pi-the-easy-way/