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I've different versions of Raspberry Pi's and want a set of different software on all of them. I made sd-card images and that works fine as long it's the same version of a Raspberry, but when the version is different, the image won't even start.

Is there a way that that I can use a set of software (VPN server, Webiopi, Gspread etc) copy to another Raspberry, without installing and setup each and every program again?

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    You could check out config management software like Puppet, chef or ansible, I run puppet on my pi's
    – Steve Robillard
    Commented Apr 29, 2016 at 19:18
  • try cloning the sd card using techniques such as: lifehacker.com/…
    – Mohammad Ali
    Commented Apr 29, 2016 at 19:57
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    Which version of Raspberry Pi did you use for setting up the sd image you want to copy? My experience shows that images working on Raspberry Pi 2 are compatible with the Raspberry Pi 1, but not necessarily the other way round.
    – DimP
    Commented Apr 29, 2016 at 20:10

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Provided you are using the latest version of Raspbian you should be able to run the same SD Card on different models (at least kernel 4.1.18). I routinely use cloned cards in a B, B+, Pi2 & Pi3 (although the B doesn't get much use lately).

There are a few things to look out for.

If you want to run them simultaneously you should use different hostname on each. Each needs unique IP address.

There are a few things which differ. Serial has changed on Pi3, but if you use /dev/serial0 it should work on all.

Some distributions e.g. Ubuntu MATE will only work on Pi2 or later.

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