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CD/DVD dive 1: Select Datastore ISO File and locate the Debian Network Installer ISO from ESXi-Arm Datastore and ensure the device has checked box for 'Connected'.

To so by clicking on ' Add New Device' and select Existing Hard Disk and locate that on the ESXi-Arm datastore

Hard Disk 1: Remove default since we are going to attach the one we just converted.

Guest OS Version: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (64-Bit).

Step 7 - Create a New VM called rPI-OS with the following configuration:

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Step 6 - Download the latest Debian 10.x Arm Network Installer ISO and also upload that to the datastore of your ESXi-Arm host Vmkfstools -i -raspios-buster-arm64.vmdk -d thin raspios-buster-arm64.vmdkДЄfter the conversion completes, you can delete the source VMDK.

You need to SSH (SSH is disabled by default) to the ESXi-Arm host after SCP'ing the VMDK and then run this command from ESXi-Arm host: To do so, we just use our good ol' friend, vmkfstools. Step 5 - We need to actually convert the VMDK one more time so ESXi understands it, as the qemu-img utility only converts it to a hosted format which is normally used by Workstation/Fusion.

Step 4 - SCP the VMDK file to the datastore of your ESXi-Arm host Qemu-img convert -f raw -raspios-buster-arm64.img -O vmdk -raspios-buster-arm64.vmdk Step 3 - Use qemu-img to convert the image file to a VMDK Step 2В - Download the latest rPI OS Buster image to your system

The following packages should be installed if you are using Photon OS:

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You will also need about ~6.5GB of free storage for the converted file format. This can also be an Ubuntu VM if you have one of those. In my setup, I am using a Photon OS 3.0 (x86) VM that I have lying around. Step 1 - You need access to a system that has the qemu-img utility installed.

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UPDATE (11/106/20) - For those familiar with VMware Virtual Appliances (OVA) and using custom OVF properties for guest/application customization, be sure to check out this complimentary blog post on how to build your own rPI OS OVA that can allow you to easily deploy additional rPI OS VMs with ease, especially useful for testing and development purposes. For those interested, I have documented the detailed instructions below. The possibilities are endless and wanted to give a huge thanks to Joakim for sharing his hack on getting this to work on ESXi-Arm. In addition, this can also benefit the rPI OS development community by making it easier to build and test applications on top of rPI OS as you can now spin these up as VMs and get all the benefits of vSphere and ESXi such as snapshots, cloning, etc. What is really exciting about this news is that you can now run any of the popular rPI applications such as RetroPi or Pi-hole which traditionally may have required several rPI to host. This is pretty interesting because rPI OS was designed to run on a physical rPI and there are no installers other than the image file which you download and copy onto the SD Card to boot. Needs uefi grub and debian kernel #raspberrypi #esxionarm /QcOxMAiSuC Running raspberry pi os on esxi on raspberry pi. Something that really caught my eye which I did not see mentioned in Andre's blog post was from Twitter user Joakim Korhonen who shared that he was able to run Raspberry Pi's (rPI) OS (formally Raspbian OS) as a Virtual Machine running on top of the ESXi-Arm Fling! For example, did you know you could run ESXi-Arm on Nintendo Switch!?рџ¤ЇДЄndrei recently published a blog post on the official ESXi-Arm blog showcasing some of the really cool stuff the community has shared on Twitter, definitely worth checking digest post #1 it out if you have not seen it. It has only been a week since the ESXi-Arm Fling was released, but the amount of experimentation and frankly cool s*** that people have been able to do in such a short period of time has been pretty mind blowing.