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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
 
 
Prerequisite
VirtualBox running in Ms Windows

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

Import OVA file from VirtualBox

  • 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
Raspberry Pi 
  • 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

Raspberry Pi Emulator

  • Open the LXTerminal
  • Enter the following command
cd debian
./launchDebian
  • Enter password for the password
  • You should see this
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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