Can Raspberry Pi Run WMWare Workstation for linux ?? Or VMWare Player ???

Lan.Hekary over 13 years ago

Hello

I know that Raspberry is capable of running Fedora .... it can run lunix ...

can any one try to install WMWare Workstation on the linux ???

It will be a revelutionary success ....

I know that The Ram is too low ... but i was able to run wmware workstaion on WinXP with 128mb ram >>> Its the half

and the linux is always lighter than Windows ....

I hope .. ane one with rapsberry will try it ...

I am Waiting for your answers ....

Please try it before posting any results ...

Lan.Hekary over 13 years ago

any one tried ???

any luck ???

please inform me with any results ...
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Former Member over 13 years ago

I'd say no since VMWare Workstation and VMWare Server are written for x86 processors.

I've heard that Xen's been ported to ARM, but you'd need to emulate the x86 instruction set if you wanted to host any x86 VMs.

That being said, I found this article that shows that there's work in that direction: http://www.linux-arm.info/index.php/157-cross-compiling-vmware-view-for-arm-linux-in-debian-ubuntu
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Lan.Hekary over 13 years ago

I dont have Raspberry yet ... I am Waiting to order it ....

But I want some who have one ... to try to play a vmware machine ...

its not important to run windown on it ...

But we can run many linux systems in one linux box ...

thanks for replying .. I will Read this article ... them reply ...
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Lan.Hekary over 13 years ago

The article is about WMware View >>> Not Workstaion or Player ....

thanks any way ....
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Former Member over 13 years ago in reply to Lan.Hekary

I don't know about "many linux systems", there's no real advantage in doing so because each OS instance uses valuable resources, something the RPi doesn't have much of. Essentially, you'd have quite a few redundant processes running, each using a chunk of RAM and sucking up CPU.

if you insist on pursuing virtualization on the RPi, I'd look into the Xen port.
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Former Member over 13 years ago in reply to Lan.Hekary

I believe I answered the question about VMWare WS and Server. They're x86 and the RPi is ARM. The article was about VMWare View and the other issues with virtualization will still apply.

Typically, when you want to set up a VM host, you want multiple processor cores, enough physical RAM available for each VM you plan on hosting and, if possible, multiple drive spindles. Even then it's not a completely scalable solution because of internal bottlenecks of the host, etc.

I plan on taking a more low brow approach to multiple OSs, I'll have a handful of SD cards with different flavors of OSs on each.
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Lan.Hekary over 13 years ago

you Can try it with Ubuntu ... I tried it before on a normal PC ...

thanks ..
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Former Member over 13 years ago in reply to Lan.Hekary

http://www.vmware.com/vmwarestore/dr_pd_workstation_requirements
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Workshopshed over 9 years ago

Just trying this out myself. Basically the answer is no as Raspbian has been optimised for Arm and hence can't work on a x86 emulator such as VMWare. However there should be a way of emulating it using QEMU

The steps needed are described here:
https://www.pcsteps.com/1199-raspberry-pi-emulation-for-windows-qemu/

To get this to work you'll need the latest version QEMU which I found at http://lassauge.free.fr/qemu/release/

You'll also need the latest version of Raspbian and the latest kernel (which needs compiling correctly) you can find the latest of these at https://github.com/dhruvvyas90/qemu-rpi-kernel/

I've not quite got it loading up yet, I've got the same error as this person and I'm assuming the same fix is needed. However I've no way of editing the image file (I'll likely need to fire up an actual pi to do this)
http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/40447/qemu-doesnt-start-because-of-kernel-panic

https://github.com/dhruvvyas90/qemu-rpi-kernel/wiki
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