Saturday, 19 January 2013 20:28
Virtualbox Raspberry Pi Emulator
Would like to have Raspberry Pi experience before you own one of the boards? This article show you how to use VirtualBox as a emulator of Raspberry Pi
Download
- Download the zip file and extract the included torrent file to any folder
- Open the torrent file with any torrent client. I'm using flashget to open the torrent file.
- The download should start.
- You will have a 658,763KB ova file upon completion of downloading
Installation
The ova file (RaspberryPi.ova) that you downloaded is a virtual machine file, it cannot open directly from VirtualBox. You must import the ova to VirtualBox before you can use it.
- Run VirtualBox
- Select File>Import Appliance as shown in figure below
- Click on Choose button
- Choose the RaspberryPi.ova file
- Click on Next button and you will see a list of the import settings
- Click on Import button to start importing, it takes about one or two minutes to complete the importing.
- A RaspberryPi VM is created as shown in figure below
- Double click the RaspberryPi icon to star the VM
- Enter rpi for login user
- Enter password for login password. You will see the Linux Ubuntu screen as shown in figure below
- Open the LXTerminal
- Enter the following command
| cd debian ./launchDebian |
- Enter password for the password
- You should see this
|
rpi@RaspberryPi:~$ cd debian
rpi@RaspberryPi:~/debian$ ./launchDebian
[sudo] password for rpi: oss: Could not initialize DAC oss: Failed to open `/dev/dsp' oss: Reason: No such file or directory oss: Could not initialize DAC oss: Failed to open `/dev/dsp' oss: Reason: No such file or directory audio: Failed to create voice `lm4549.out' VNC server running on `127.0.0.1:5900' |
- This will start the VNC server
- Open another LXTerminal
- Enter the following command
| xtightvncviewer localhost |
- The raspberry-pi login is root
- The login password is password
- You are now logged into the emulated Raspberry Pi
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