[AccessD] Raspbian in a VM

[John Colby]

I bought a handful of these little devices, including one of the 
original raspberry pi, which I can't find.

I had high hopes for using one as a streaming media machine, the Pine64 
RockPro64, for which I bought the 4 gb version.  It is a very powerful 
little device, hex core with 2 or 4 gb LPDDR4 ram.

I wanted it to run Linux, which it does, but also a linux streaming 
media package which it does not.  Apparently (I will test this soon) it 
will in fact run Android TV.  That is what I will be testing - real soon 
now.

I wanted to get something working "right now" so I wimped out and bought 
two of the NVidia Shield streaming devices (2017 version) - not the 
tablet devices of a confusingly similar name - which are obscenely 
powerful, widely acknowledged as the best, most powerful, most stable 
media streaming device in existence.  I concur.  They are plug and play, 
turn it on, hook it to wifi or a wired internet, then a google account 
and off you go.  They automatically update software very often.  Not 
sure what NVidia does in the updates but they occur often (every couple 
of weeks?).  It will do Kodi, plus Android TV with all that entails.

I got them on Black Friday for $149 each with the gaming controller, a 
smoking deal.  I installed one at my Ex's house which they are now using 
extensively, including with a 4 tb USB external hard disk with ~400-500 
movies on it (Kodi) as well as Netflix and Amazon Prime videos plus just 
a ton of other streaming thingies.  I installed the other at my church, 
hooked up to the second HDMI channel of an overhead projector, which we 
use for streaming YouTube videos for Open Mic Night.  I don't watch TV 
so I can't really dive deeply into the "streaming thingies".

I can't say enough good things about the NVidia Shield.  "It Just 
Works", a quote they use for their new video cards, which sadly do just 
work but are waaaaay overpriced.  At $149 the shield was well worth the 
price.

https://www.androidcentral.com/how-setup-kodi-nvidia-shield-android-tv

https://shield.nvidia.com/blog/how-to-setup-plex-media-server



On 2/15/2019 7:13 PM, Bill Benson wrote:
> This was an old thread but reading this article made me wonder what John
> Colby's recent experience has been, in contrast with this writer's findings.
>
> https://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-10-raspberry-pi-hands-on,38629.html
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 1:14 PM John Colby <jwcolby at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I installed Raspbian in a Virtual box on my Windows 10 desktop. Took
>> about an hour start to finish.
>>
>>
>> https://grantwinney.com/how-to-create-a-raspberry-pi-virtual-machine-vm-in-virtualbox/
>>
>> I actually have several early Raspberry Pi machines, just need to find
>> them, set up a little workstation keyboard / mouse / monitor for them
>> etc.  Kinda short on space where I am now.  I had them running a couple
>> of years ago.  Also a BeagleBone black and a couple of Odroids IIRC.
>> All in a box somewhere.
>>
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