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RasPBX in a Virtual Machine

2020-09-28
2021-06-01
  • Diana Vallverdú i Cabrera

    Hi there!

    I am using asterisk in a Raspberry Pi. It works amazingly well. I would like to install it in a virtual machine, so that I can work on the product when I am away from the pi. Is it possible to do this at all? I have been playing with VirtualBox a little bit, but have to say I am pretty new and I haven't found any useful information pointing me. Is there any software that might work better than virtualbox?

    Thank you,

    Diana

     
  • Nevada Tech

    Nevada Tech - 2021-03-30

    Hello Diana,

    I'm sure you're long gone by now or you've figured it out on your own. This post is more for new peeps looking for the answer.

    Basically, no. Keep in mind the Raspberry Pi is an ARM processor. Most virtual machine will require an x86/x64 processor. So things like ESXi and KVM are not options. Anyone know about byhve?

    You may be able to do it if you find an emulator though. I believe QEMU does ARM emulation and there's a blog about ARM emulation when running Window 10 on ARM. With either of these two solutions I imagine it would be quite an effort.

     
  • Kostas Gotsis

    Kostas Gotsis - 2021-06-01

    Actually ESXi can be run in a Pi4 (4 or 8GB) as a fling (https://flings.vmware.com/esxi-arm-edition) and runs quite well and stable multiple simultaneous debian, ubuntu, or even rpiOS (https://williamlam.com/2020/10/how-to-run-raspberry-pi-os-as-a-vm-on-esxi-arm.html) images.

    But it is only working with 64bit images, so raspbx cannot be run since it is a 32bit image.

     

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