# RasPlex in a VM **URL:** \ **Category:** Apps & Creations\ **Created:** [April 20, 2013, 10:45am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/rasplex-in-a-vm/33113 "2013-04-20T10:45:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DrZeuss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@DrZeuss](https://forums.plex.tv/u/DrZeuss)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 10:45am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/rasplex-in-a-vm/33113/1 "2013-04-20T10:45:22Z")
Is there any method for installing RasPlex under a virtual machine? I believe OpenElec provides an install script to create a VMware .vmx file but not sure if this can be used for RasPlex.   It would be useful to be able to install RasPlex in a VM for testing purposes. ---
**Author:** ![Craquehead](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/craquehead/32/1283_2.png) [@Craquehead](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Craquehead)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 12:41pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/rasplex-in-a-vm/33113/2 "2013-04-20T12:41:36Z")
I don't think any available hypervisors support emulating ARM on an x86 server. ---
**Author:** ![DrZeuss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@DrZeuss](https://forums.plex.tv/u/DrZeuss)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 3:12pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/rasplex-in-a-vm/33113/3 "2013-04-20T15:12:48Z")
> I don't think any available hypervisors support emulating ARM on an x86 server. According to the OpenELEC wiki, its supported under VMware. [http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php?title=Installing\_OpenELEC\_on\_VMware](http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php?title=Installing_OpenELEC_on_VMware) ---
**Author:** ![Craquehead](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/craquehead/32/1283_2.png) [@Craquehead](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Craquehead)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2013, 3:19pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/rasplex-in-a-vm/33113/4 "2013-04-20T15:19:42Z")
It says that the x86 version of OpenELEC is supported. ``` PROJECT=Virtual ARCH=i386 make release ``` Raspberry Pis run on ARM chips, which are not compatible with x86. Furthermore, I'm not sure how useful running ARM OpenELEC on a virtual machine would be even if it were possible; Many of the challenges facing Plex on Pi are due to the hardware; A Virtualized Pi would have different performance, and it would only virtualize the ARM core; you would be missing things like hardware video acceleration. At any rate, there is a Pi emulator, if you want to try that. [http://sourceforge.net/projects/rpiqemuwindows/](http://sourceforge.net/projects/rpiqemuwindows/) ---
**Author:** ![nefer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@nefer](https://forums.plex.tv/u/nefer)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 12:52pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/rasplex-in-a-vm/33113/5 "2013-04-22T12:52:53Z")
What is the reasoning behind running RasPlex on VMWare? You could just as well run the Windows version. ---
**Author:** ![a\_wein](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/a_wein/32/2521_2.png) [@a\_wein](https://forums.plex.tv/u/a_wein)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2013, 3:31pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/rasplex-in-a-vm/33113/6 "2013-04-22T15:31:25Z")
Building OpenELEC for VirtualBox is supported and works fine. But RasPlex is OpenELEC + PlexHT and thus needs some more special tweaks. I've tried to setup a development build using the "Virtual" target some time ago - but I've never got a full build. But I haven't invested much time into this... Thus: It should work but needs some work. We would be glad to get a pull request which enables full Virtual support... Btw: The same is true for any other OpenELEC project target... ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2019, 11:15pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/rasplex-in-a-vm/33113/7 "2019-12-20T23:15:08Z")
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