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sorry if this has been covered somewhere else...i tried searching without much luck.

i have installed the virtual box and set up a virtual machine on my laptop as directed in the raspberry pi tutorials on youtube that liam has made.

how do i write this to ym SD card so i can have the same OS on my raspberry pi?

i have tried looking on the application itself without much joy. i am new to all this so please be patient...well you don't have to be i suppose...

thanks, H

If it's not running an emulation via Qemu then you could transfer with the right commands but it won't work because the VirtualBox is talking x86 CPU code and the Pi has an ARM CPU - totally different.

VirtualBox simulation lets you do Pi type things on your desktop machine so it's very useful but it's not transferrable.

However, what you've learn't will be directly useful on your Pi and should only take a few minutes to setup.

aah i see, thank you very much.

so i guess i just have to do exactly the same process through the raspberry pi using an ethernet/wireless connection.

thank you!

Not exactly the same process - most of it is already setup and ready to go - things like python & the editor Geany - but anything you installed you will need to do as you mention above.

ok, i did notice when i tried to build a simple "hello world" code in geany on the pi that it failed because "xterm" or "termx" wasn't loaded, thats why i did the virtual box thing on my laptop.

is this something that i've done wrong or do you need to download it using the apt-get process.

once again thanks for the patience, i'm a complete noob to this. and i must admit this is the first ever forum where i have had a reply let alone one thats helpful and so quick!