Can Raspberry Pi Run VMWare WorkStation .. Or VMWare Player

[Lan.Hekary]

Hello

Please .. if you have A Raspberry Pi .. and you are intersted ...

Install VMWare Player 3.1 or VMWare workstation 6.5 >>> max 7 ...

Please Try Before posting the Result ...

and if you need any help i will help ...

thanks ...

[Spider.007]

You seriously want to run VMware on a RPI with a 700MHz processor and 256 MiB shared with the GPU?

[nick.mccloud]

Rather irrelevant - VMWare is for x86 only and the Pi is ARM only - nothing in VMWare can run on the Pi.

[Lan.Hekary]

at First

I manged to run VMware on XP with 700MHz and 128 Ram ... not 256 ...

and I want to run anther linux systems on raspberry Pi ...

and I want someone to try to install it ...

[JeremyF]

at First

I manged to run VMware on XP with 700MHz and 128 Ram ... not 256 ...

and I want to run anther linux systems on raspberry Pi ...

and I want someone to try to install it ...

It's not possible. It requires an x86 processor. The Raspberry Pi is an ARM device, completely different architecture entirely.

[AndrewS]

and I want to run anther linux systems on raspberry Pi ...

Best way of doing that is by simply swapping SD-cards

[Lan.Hekary]

I want to run 2 Linux Distributions at the Same time .. i can't do that with swapping SD cards ..
Plus I don't want to have many SD Cards for each OS ...

[JeremyF]

I want to run 2 Linux Distributions at the Same time .. i can't do that with swapping SD cards ..
Plus I don't want to have many SD Cards for each OS ...

I'll repeat it again:

at First

I manged to run VMware on XP with 700MHz and 128 Ram ... not 256 ...

and I want to run anther linux systems on raspberry Pi ...

and I want someone to try to install it ...

It's not possible. It requires an x86 processor. The Raspberry Pi is an ARM device, completely different architecture entirely.

[Peetz0r]

Well, it coule be possible to emulate an arm device on a arm device using QEMU, but that would be very slow on high-end hardware. And much slower on a Raspberry Pi. You could try it, but it won't be usable at all.

[AndrewS]

I wonder if it'd be possible to get User-mode Linux running on the ARM? (although it's something I've not used myself, even on x86)

EDIT: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-linuxvirt/ says that Linux-VServer runs on ARM... but given the limited RAM available on a single Raspi, it may just be easier to buy a second unit (when that becomes possible!)

[redhawk]

You could try DOSBox there is an ARM Linux port which should make running x86 programs possible although it will be slow due to emulating x86 instruction set with an ARMv6 processor.
DOSBox is capable of running Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 however just how well they perform under and ARM Linux environment remains to be seen.

Richard S.

[AndrewS]

I believe Abishur has used DOSbox to run old PC games on his Raspi.
But the OP said he wants to run a second instance of Linux, which DOSbox won't be able to do

[nick.mccloud]

Maybe we could try a compile of QEMU to see what happens - something for this evening ...

[phrasz]

Pipe X applications over ssh to view on the RasPi?
LMGTFY

[Lorian]

There is an easy and cost effective solution to the OP's requirement. Buy Two Pi.

[morey8]

May I ask why you would want to run two distro's at the same time? Well...want or need? Because if you need to run two different Linux distributions everyone pretty much summed up the reasons why it would/wouldn't work. In theory it is possible but it would be the slowest thing ever and any processes you'd want to add thereafter would almost be pointless to try and run. My recommendation would be to buy another Pi (I know this option might not be what you were looking for) and hook the two up with a KVM switch. This way you've got one workstation using the same keyboard and mouse and whatever other input devices would switch over easily. Plus you get to keep all the power of each Pi without slowing it down.

However I don't think you mentioned what other Linux distro you'd be using. There's only a handful of distributions that work for the Pi right now and if you're looking to run something entirely different then I guess we've got a whole nother issue on our hands.

[iggykoopa]

you could try using a chroot environment. I'm running the debian build and set it up to run fedora 17 chrooted like so:

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mkdir /fedora
cd /fedora
wget http://fedora.roving-it.com/rootfs-f17-sfp-alpha1.tar.bz2
tar xvjf rootfs-f17-sfp-alpha1.tar.bz2
mount -o bind /proc /fedora/proc
mount -o bind /dev /fedora/dev
mount -o bind /sys /fedora/sys
chroot /fedora

I'd recommend using screen with this. Also I have my root dir set up over nfs, you may run out of space on an sd card. It's running pretty well though.