windows vista on raspberry pi 3 B+
is it possible to put windows vista on raspberry pi 3B+ I have the requirements I just want to make sure its possible before continuing
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You could use virtualisation to create a virtual X86 environment to run windows vista in. Although I wouldn’t recommend anything new than vista as the Pi doesn’t have much processing power, compared to pcs that ran it decently. It might work on the new Pi4 though, so maybe give that a go
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Virtual environment? How could I run that?
I was a pretty much a noob at pi when I asked this question, now I know I can add it but I won’t have drivers for vista that are compatible , so now I’m mostly trying to boost the graphics power so it can work better on tabs , maybe if I figure how to overclock with a decent cooling system I could play the original halo. Do you where I can insert the over lock lines?
Overclocking on PI 1 and 2 can easily be done through the raspi-config utility, however overclocking on newer models requires a bit of linux command line knowledge, which I dont have much of. Maybe try the raspberry pi foundation forums? I find them very helpful for many things rpi related
sudo nano /boot/config.txt
(This command will get you into the config text file)
Then add something like arm_freq=1500 (arm_freq is In MHz)
Also if you mean the Halo from the original Xbox good luck with that because afaik you can't emulate Xbox on Pi. I could be wrong though.
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Anything is possible with a Raspberry Pi! I would however not recommend this as a Raspberry Pi is made to run Linux Kernals specifically.
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This is not correct. It is not possible to natively run x86 machine on an ARM CPU. It will never happen.
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It is NOT possible, unfortunately. The raspberry pi uses an ARM processor, Windows Vista requires x86.
However, with software like QEMU, you could run Windows (maybe not Vista) in a Virtual Machine.
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QEMU? never heard of it, will it run xp maybe
Possibly. Really just depends if you can get a good windows iso (I recommend archive.org) and if your pi can run it. Same thing could be achieved on a real PC with Oracle VirtualBox
