Raspberry Pi Emulator Mac

Our articles usually show you how to do things on a Raspberry Pi. This time, we’re changing things up: we’re going to show you how to use a PC or Mac to run the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s desktop operating system, Debian with Raspberry Pi Desktop (for brevity’s sake, we’ll call it just “Raspberry Pi Desktop” from now on). This Raspbian-like OS (as the names imply, both operating systems are based on Debian) allows you to use your PC or Mac as a kind of substitute for your Raspberry Pi. That makes it useful for testing out projects when your Pi isn’t handy. It’s also fun because it backs the familiar Raspbian interface with your PC or Mac’s hardware, which is much more powerful than the little Pi.

The simplest way to get Raspberry Pi Desktop up and running is to install the operating system, but that will require you to dedicate a computer to the project (or at least to partition a hard drive). If you want to keep running Windows or macOS on your computer, your best bet is to run Raspberry Pi Desktop on a virtual machine – which is exactly what we’ll show you how to do in this guide.

On the software side, the Raspberry Pi is running Rasbian, a modified version on Debian Linux. On top of this is the Mini vMac emulator running System Software 6.0.8. Leake was worried the tiny. The successor to Raspbian 95, Raspbian XP, and other themed Pi operating systems, Twister OS is based on Raspberry Pi OS and features the Xfce desktop environment. A selection of desktop themes, inspired by Windows and Mac operating systems, are preinstalled. Running Raspberry Pi Desktop is a great way to make use of an old computer that’s not capable of running the latest version of Windows or macOS. Additionally, Raspberry Pi Desktop includes lots of software tools to get you started with coding and digital making. Warning: installing Raspberry Pi Desktop on a computer will delete all the data. So at this point you should get the emulator window and a terminal you can add the following commands in. Sed -i -e 's/^/#/' /etc/ld.so.preload sed -i -e 's/^/#/' /etc/ld.so.conf sed -i -e 's/^/#/' /etc/fstab. Exit that and the next command will start the actual raspberry pi emulation. Emulate Raspberry Pi.

How to run Raspberry Pi Desktop on Windows or macOS

Step 1: Download and install VirtualBox

Because we’re going to run Raspberry Pi Desktop on a virtual machine, we’ll need to download Oracle VM VirtualBox. In Oracle’s own words, “VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use.”

You can download the software from VirtualBox’s Downloads page. Just choose the right version for your operation system (there are two: a Windows version and a macOS version). After you’ve downloaded the executable, install VirtualBox by following the installation wizard’s instructions.

Step 2: Download Debian with Raspberry Pi Desktop

Next, you’ll need to download the image file of Raspberry Pi Desktop from the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s site.

Step 3: Launch VirtualBox and create a new virtual machine

Now that we’ve both VirtualBox and Raspberry Pi Desktop downloaded, we’re ready to launch VirtualBox and create a new virtual machine.

Click “New,” and you should see a screen like this:

We don’t want to create a Windows virtual machine, of course, so let’s change the settings a bit. First, choose a descriptive name for your virtual machine (for example, “Raspberry Pi”), then select Linux from the Type dropdown menu and Debian (64-bit) from the Version dropdown menu. After that, click Next.

On the next screen, you can use the recommended memory size of 1024 MB – this corresponds to the Raspberry Pi 3’s memory size.

The next screen is about adding a hard disk to your new virtual machine. Just click Create, unless you have some reason to modify the settings. Then, click Next on this screen and again on the next.

Finally, you can choose the size of your hard disk. We used the recommended size of 8 GB, but you may want to have a larger hard disk. When you’re ready, click Create.

Now we have the settings of our virtual machine in place.

Step 4: Install Raspberry Pi Desktop

Click Start to start the installation of Raspberry Pi Desktop. You should see a screen like this:

Browse to the folder where you saved the image file of Raspberry Pi Desktop, select the file, and click Start. What you should see next is a menu titled “Debian GNU/Linux installer boot menu.” Use the arrow keys – or i – and Enter to select Install.

On the next screen, select your preferred keyboard layout and continue by pressing Enter.

Choose Guided – use the entire disk and keep pressing Enter to Select disk to partition and choose the Partitioning scheme. Finally, Finish partitioning and write changes to disk.

You might want to grab a cup of coffee or tea while the system is installing.

After a while, the installation wizard prompt you: “Install the GRYB boot loader to the master boot record?” Select Yes, and choose /dev/sda.

When the installation wizard has installed everything, you should see a screen like this:

Look familiar? If you’ve used Raspbian before, it should!

Step 5: Make the virtual machine interactive

Our virtual machine is successfully running Raspberry Desktop now, but the screen size is a bit small, and it doesn’t get bigger when you click Maximize. We can make our machine more interactive by installing VirtualBox Guest Additions. Guest Additions makes it possible for us to resize the screen, use the clipboard, and share files between our PC or Mac and the virtual machine.

To do this, first open Terminal and make sure that your system is up to date:

You’ll have to type the commands because our virtual machine isn’t very cooperative, yet.

Now we’re ready to install VirtualBox Guest Additions:

With Guest Extensions installed, click on the Devices menu and select Shared Clipboard > Bidirectional.

If you rebooted your virtual machine now, you would be able to use the same clipboard on both your PC or Mac and the virtual machine. You would also be able to resize the screen. But let’s not reboot, yet. Instead, let’s first to add our user to the vboxsf group to enable file sharing between the virtual machine and PC or Mac:

Now we’re ready to shut down our virtual machine and set up a shared folder. This the shutdown command:

Step 6: Set up a shared folder

To set up a shared folder, right-click on your virtual machines name and select Settings…, or press Ctrl+S with your virtual machine selected.

From the menu that opens, select Shared Folders.

Click the button with the green plus sign that adds a new shared folder.

From the Folder Path dropdown many, select Other… and then the folder you’d like to share. When you’re ready, click OK and check Auto-mount.

If you start your virtual machine again and launch the file manager, you should see your shared folder with the prefix “sf_” in the /media directory. Any file you put in that folder will also show up in the corresponding folder in/on your PC or Mac, and vice versa.

And that’s it! You now have Raspberry Pi Desktop running on a virtual machine on your PC or Mac, and you can easily use the clipboard and manage folders while you’re working on your next project.

Welcome to RetroPie. RetroPie allows you to turn your Raspberry Pi, ODroid C1/C2, or PC into a retro-gaming machine. It builds upon Raspbian, EmulationStation, RetroArch and many other projects to enable you to play your favourite Arcade, home-console, and classic PC games with the minimum set-up. For power users it also provides a large variety of configuration tools to customise the system as you want.

RetroPie sits on top of a full OS, you can install it on an existing Raspbian, or start with the RetroPie image and add additional software later. It's up to you.

While the RetroPie Project originated at petRockBlock.com this is now the home of RetroPie.

Please note: No copyrighted games are included with RetroPie

Features

EmulationStation

EmulationStation is the frontend for launching all of your games.

RetroArch

Raspberry Pi Apple 2 Emulator

RetroArch is a frontend for the Libretro API which standardises controls and adds features for many of the emulators. Many emulators used on RetroPie are due to the hard work of the Libretro team.

Kodi

If you get tired of gaming you can watch your own movies or listen to music with Kodi: your own personal media centre. It can be installed from the experimental menu of the RetroPie Setup Script.

Themes