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DeskPi Pro is the Ultimate Case Kit for Raspberry Pi 4 with Full Size HDMI/2.5 Hard Disk Support and Safe Power Button, It has QC 3.0 Power Supply inside and New ICE Tower Cooler inside.
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Can this be installed on VMware ESXI for raspberry pi? #101

Closed RadJKW closed 4 months ago

RadJKW commented 2 years ago

I am wanting to run my deskpi as a vmware esxi server. I'm sure i can use the scripts to install deskpi.service and deskpi-shut-off.service but i am not sure which one i should use.

jojobrogess commented 2 years ago

Find out what the base for VMWARE is, find an installer close to that.

If not, you'll have to find out how that OS works and where the files should be installed, and then build an installer.

yoyojacky commented 4 months ago

I have no idea if the esxi can running on Raspberry Pi and work with the overlay dwc2. here is a hint for you.

  1. OS need to support dwc2 overlay to make the Raspberry Pi recognized the daughter board and it will enable the front USB port .
  2. DeskPi daughter board's MCU is connected to Raspberry Pi via USB-C port and it will generate a USB serial port as /dev/ttyUSB0 and the MCU will listen the signal from the Raspberry Pi . for example: once the Raspberry Pi send "pwm_100" to /dev/ttyUSB0, MCU will parser the signal and the control the speed of the fan to 100% speed, and it will cut off the power when Raspberry Pi send "poweroff" to MCU, it will delay for 8-10 seconds to wait for the shut down sequence finished.
  3. The install.sh shell script will show you how to deploy those things and there are source codes in driver location. both Language C and Python)