Raspberry Pi on x86

So next, what we’re going to be doing is installing Raspberry Pi on x86 machine, but what we’re going to be doing is using VirtualBox to try before we buy, or if you’re in a development situation, this would be a great way to do it. So what you need for this is a PC or a Mac, VirtualBox, Raspian again, and about 30 minutes. So this Raspian though is a specially designed Raspian that is just for x86 machines. Again, the normal Raspian is for an ARM-based architecture. And so let’s get started.

So the things that you need, again, you need to download and install VirtualBox, and you can do that at VirtualBox dot org. You have to adjust your bios settings if you haven’t already, and if you don’t know how to do that, I’ll leave you a reference link for a video. This is me showing you how to do it. So every machine is a little bit different, but there are certain things you need to look for.

Why you need to change your bios settings is to enable you to actually use a virtual machine in 64-bit, which is what we want to do. You have to adjust your bios settings to do that. Otherwise, it will not run and you’d have to run in 32-bit. Download the Raspberry Pi desktop, and you can get that at Raspberry Pi dot org downloads Raspberry Pi desktop, and we’ll show you that in a second.

Installation, start VirtualBox, New, type in Linux and Debian 64, memory size, create a virtual hard disk, and pick the type of hard disk. Click on Settings, and click Floppy, add extra storage if you need it, and then change network from attached to bridged adapter. Installation, part two, press Start in VirtualBox, welcome to Raspberry, just like the last version. Again, country, language, time zone. Password, Wi-Fi, update software, and reboots. And the thing about this is we’re not going to reboot– we’re not going to update the software in the actual Raspian application because it tends to crash, so we’re going to just do it from the command line. Any problems, again, Raspberry Pi dot org forums.