{"id":3862,"date":"2013-04-30T14:05:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T14:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/178.62.14.192\/?p=3862"},"modified":"2013-04-30T14:05:45","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T14:05:45","slug":"virtualization-on-the-raspberrypi-with-vpi-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3862","title":{"rendered":"Virtualization on the #RaspberryPi with vPi (coming soon)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/xtravirt.com\">xtravirt.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If you are a VMware evangelist and love the Raspberry Pi, what do you do? You create vPi of course! That was Xtravirt\u2019s co-founder Alex Mittell\u2018s thought when he decided to put together the vPi project. vPi is a modified version of the Raspbian distribution (which is based on Debian). 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