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I have tried Debian on VirtualBox and would like to check out Raspbian. How do I install Raspbian on VirtualBox?

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@asalamon74 i'm looking for more specific answer for Raspbian OS. I tried Debian, it works but i have no idea how to do it for Raspbian. – JeeShen Lee Jul 21 '12 at 3:31
Are you using Windows or Linux? – Alex Chamberlain Jul 21 '12 at 9:48
@AlexChamberlain i'm running Windows. – JeeShen Lee Jul 21 '12 at 10:54

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VirtualBox lets you run x86 virtual machines on an x86 processor. Raspbian is a distribution for ARM processors. Raspbian cannot run in VirtualBox.

Raspbian is essentially Debian with binaries compiled to match the Pi's processor more closely than the official Debian binaries. So if you're going to your system in a virtual machine rather than on Pi hardware, there is very little reason to run Raspbian and not Debian.

If you really want to run Raspbian in a virtual machine on your PC (again, for most purposes, you might as well run Debian x86), you need one that emulates the hardware, such as QEmu. See Emulation on a Windows PC

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