#Retropie virtualbox how to#
#Retropie virtualbox license key#
#Retropie virtualbox install#
#Retropie virtualbox update#

#Retropie virtualbox how to#

How to run some iconic PC games like Arcanum, Disciples II and Fallout on Raspberry Pi with ExaGear Desktop.

#Retropie virtualbox install#

Install PC version ofР’В PlexServer on yourР’В Raspberry PiР’В using ExaGear DesktopР’В and get access to your media.Now you can play with your x86 virtual machine and install your favorite PC applications!Р”Р„fter installing an x86 application in the guest x86 environment you can just go to the Start Menu of your Raspbian and run this application simultaneously with native ARM applications.Р”Р‡or example, you can run Spotify on Raspberry Pi with ExaGear Desktop virtual machine.Р’В You can even use Spotify Connect on your Android or iOS device to remotely control the music on your Raspberry Pi.

#Retropie virtualbox update#

It is recommended to update apt-get repositories on the first launch of the guest system: $ sudo apt-get update You are in the x86 environment that can be checked by running the РІР‚ВarchРІР‚в„ў command: $ archР”В¤. Starting the shell in the guest image /opt/exagear/images/debian-8-wine2g Enter the guest x86 system using the following command: $ exagear Launch the Guest x86 System on Your ARM DeviceР”Р€. Install and activate ExaGear on your ARM device by running install-exagear.sh script in the directory with deb packages and one license key: $ sudo. Open Terminal (command line), move to this folder and unpack the archive using the following command: $ tar -xvzpf Р”Сћ.

#Retropie virtualbox license key#

Put ExaGear Desktop archive with installation packages and ExaGear Desktop license key in the same folder. This allows you to make your Raspberry Pi more flexible, combining programs with different architecture in one system.Р”РЋ. Moreover, with ExaGear Desktop you can create a heterogeneous environment where both ARM and x86 applications can work simultaneously and communicate with each other as usual Linux applications. This way of using ExaGear Desktop allows you to easily launch x86 programs, including Spotify, Skype, Teamviewer, TeamSpeak 3 Server, Dropbox, Telegram, uTorrent and many others on your Raspberry Pi (as well as on Odroid, Banana Pi, Pine64, etc.). But for sure, we are also planning to implement a full-level VM. SoР’В we decided to start from this approach. Implementation of a full-level VM is much harder.Р”Р„s long as users need certain apps more than some OS, an application-level VM looks more valuable for end-users. An application-level VM works faster and consumes fewer resources of RPi (such as CPU and memory).Р”Сћ.

Why did we make an application-level VM, but not a full-level VM? There are two main reasons:Р”РЋ. So, you can not run x86 Windows or x86 Linux itself, but you can run almost any x86 application (in case of Windows РІР‚вЂњ application using Wine) with the help of ExaGear Desktop. What does it mean? It means that ExaGear Desktop emulates x86 environment only for applications, but not for x86 OSes. To be more precise, ExaGear Desktop is an application-level virtual machine.

So, here we could give up, but fortunately, we have ExaGear Desktop !Р”Р„s youРІР‚в„ўve probably understood from the info above, ExaGear Desktop is a virtual machine that supports x86 translation to ARM architecture. One can recall cross-architecture solution of QEMU, but QEMU does it with huge performance overheads and with a lot of limitations. This happens because modern virtual machines can not emulate another CPU, they just allow Guest OS system to share hardware resources with the host OS.

But even if you overcome all the obstacles you will face another issue РІР‚вЂњ you can not run x86 software inside your VM. Installing and using the open-source VMs that support ARM (like QEMU or KVM) may be rather tricky. AlthoughР’В Raspberry Pi is the most popular mini PC device, developing such sophisticated software as a virtual machine would require much effort. That is why common solutions for PC world will not work РІР‚вЂњ VMware and VirtualBox support only x86 architecture. RPi has a different CPU architecture comparing to usual PC РІР‚вЂњ it is based on ARM CPU instead of x86. Virtual machines are very popular in the PC world and have a lot of applications there.