{"id":6776,"date":"2022-10-31T10:02:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T10:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/?p=6776"},"modified":"2025-12-28T19:14:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T19:14:24","slug":"raspbian-on-virtual-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/raspbian-on-virtual-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Raspbian on Virtual Box"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I turned off my Raspberry Pi a couple of weeks ago, I was concerned about its energy draw. FFS. 😲 Also the projects I planned had stalled but like the No 11 bus, another one has come along, So I decided to install a Raspberry Pi in my virtual box instance. Here’s how …<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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  1. How to make a VM<\/a> and install an intel version of the OS<\/a>, or https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.com\/software\/operating-systems\/#raspberry-pi-desktop<\/a> because ARM binaries won’t run in a VB VM. NB <\/strong>Today, VB offers an unattended installation; I don;t think this works with this release; the .iso has to be attached to the CD. This page walks you through<\/a> it. It defaults to ssh <\/em>off, which is needed to make sftp <\/em>work. <\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. How to make the guest additions<\/a>, on my version of the guest OS, it needs to be done from the command line, and thus the disk needs to be inserted using the VB menu options, although this article<\/a> shows how to install the guest additions, it’s not working as I’d expect, i.e. the full screen does not behave as such and it reminds me of the early days of Linux. I installed<\/strong> XRDP, it does not come as a default, and RDP’d onto it. Works fine, very odd. RDP is unusably slow. And with VB 7.10, I had to issue the command mount\/dev\/cdrom \/mnt<\/code>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    I found some runes to install the Guest Additions, because this version of raspbian does not have the guest additions as a package. I decided to not install it on the second build and use RDP. The runes are in the comments and somewhere else on the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Whats next<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    Step 1 – set the FDQN<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

    Does this help?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. q=how+to+set+an+fdqn+in+a+virtual+box+vm<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. https:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/609171\/how-can-i-add-a-fqdn-to-a-centos-vm-running-on-virtualbox<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. virtual box view forum ‘windows hosts’<\/a> & https:\/\/www.virtualbox.org\/manual\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    4. Or this, Set your hostname and Fully Qualified Domain Name<\/a>, from gridscale.io, it’s just the hosts and hosts.conf <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      I found this too hard, or too poorly documented. So I gave up on using the VM; I could not work out how to configure the FQDN and<\/strong> the router which is a BT Home Hub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      Step 2 – install a mail server<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

      See, https:\/\/raspberrytips.com\/mail-server-raspberry-pi\/<\/a> , https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/my-little-mail-server\/<\/a> which points at https:\/\/cnedelcu.blogspot.com\/2014\/01\/how-to-set-up-simple-mail-server-debian-linux.html<\/a> (dated 2014 😇)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      or https:\/\/www.tecmint.com\/install-postfix-mail-server-with-webmail-in-debian\/<\/a> (dated Oct 2017)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Step 3 – install an app<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

      See Mastodon<\/a> and Diaspora<\/a>, perhaps docker, but that seems to have gone very quite<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      I turned off my Raspberry Pi a couple of weeks ago, I was concerned about its energy draw. FFS. 😲 Also the projects I planned had stalled but like the No 11 bus, another one has come along, So I decided to install a Raspberry Pi in my virtual box instance. Here’s how …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[916,994,1286,911,11],"class_list":["post-6776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","category-technology","tag-linux","tag-raspberry-pi","tag-raspbian","tag-technology","tag-virtual-box"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@davelevy_eu\/111976353625221228","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/raspberrytart-unsplash-alexandrakusper-cropped-w1024.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6776"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13686,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6776\/revisions\/13686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}