Running ESXi on a Raspberry Pi: Installing VMware ESXi on Raspberry Pi 4 to run Linux virtual machines

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T. Fenton, P. KennedyRunning ESXi on a Raspberry Pihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7465-1_3

3. ESXi on Arm on Pi Use Cases

Thomas Fenton¹   and Patrick Kennedy²

(1)

Ridgefield, WA, USA

(2)

Austin, TX, USA

 

ESXi on Arm running on a Raspberry Pi is a low-cost entry point into the world of virtualization and VMware, but, as we discussed in the previous chapter, its hardware does limit what this setup can do. This said, it is still able to accomplish some remarkable feats for something so small. In this chapter, we’ll take a look at use cases for ESXi on Arm on Pi, some of which are actively being used, while others less so. Some are simple uses that I’ve seen ...