Icinga2 on Raspberry Pi 2

[MikeI]

Hello

I've managed to install Arch Linux ARM on my Raspberry Pi 2 and to configure. Thank you very much for the work which was done. It is a real pleasure to play with it.

I bought some Raspberry Pi 2s' for monitoring purposes. I would like to place a Raspberry Pi 2 in each network to monitor the devices in it. Then I would like to collect the information in a central place. So I tried to install Icinga2 on the Raspberry. Since there is no package available I tried to build it myself. Unfortunately the build process stopped with the message not enough resources. I already had this issue when I tried to build it in a virtual machine. I then attributed more RAM to the virtual machine and was then able to build.

Now my question. Can I install Arch Linux ARM in an emulator which has more memory so that I can build the package. This would be even very useful to build all other packages and then I only would have to transfer the package and could install it with pacman. No need to install base-devel on the Raspberry.

I read that with QEMU you can emulate but in one of the pages it was written that you cannot increase the memory. What kind of experiences to you have with this emulator and how do you build the packages?

Thank you very much in advance.

Regards
Michael

[WarheadsSE]

There is no official emulation support. We have a guide for distcc.

If all you need is more RAM, then I suggest trying swap.

[MikeI]

A swapfile made the job.

Thank you very much.