How to run Batocera's .IMG image in VirtualBox?

felipeadms

What's up guys! I have a ".IMG" image of Batocera modified with several games on my PC and would like to run in VirtualBox to make GamePlays. Do you know how I can do this? I've tried everything: /

nadenislamarre

you cannot or in other words you but the gui will be slow because the virtualbox drivers are not included in batocera for 3d graphisms.

lbrpdx

Digging up this topic, as I recently ran Batocera as a VM in VirtualBox.

This is mostly for development purposes, as nadenislamarre said, I would not recommend to use Batocera in a VM environment for actual retrogaming.

First, download the PC x86_64 version of Batocera… you'll have a gzipped file named for example batocera-5.22-x86_64-20190510.img.gz

Unzip the image with:
$ gzip -d batocera-5.22-x86_64-20190510.img.gz

You end up with a 3.0GB batocera-5.22--5.22-x86_64-20190510.img (compared to the gzipped image that is typically just shy of 1.0GB )

Convert it into a VDI image with:
$ VBoxManage convertdd batocera-5.22-x86_64-20190510.img bato-5.22beta2.vdi Converting from raw image file="batocera-5.22-x86_64-20190510.img" to file="bato-5.22beta2.vdi"... Creating dynamic image with size 3226246656 bytes (3077MB)…

The VDI image generated is bato-5.22beta2.vdi in that case

You can now gzip back your .img $ gzip batocera-5.22-x86_64-20190510.img (to save about 2GB on your hard drive).

In VirtualBox, you can create a new VM (Menu Machine->New), select type "Linux" and Version "Linux 2.6 / 3.x / 4.x (64-bit)" and press "Continue". Then select the amount of RAM (1GB should be OK for testing/dev purposes), and finally "Use an existing virtual hard disk file" that you point to your freshly created VDI file (bato-5.22beta2.vdi).

That's it, you can now run this new VM with Batocera on it.

GameCast

here another way to run from, usb, but just found this in portugues 🙁
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meW0ZTbvhKc&t=3s

nadenislamarre that is correct, batocera on virtual drive is realy slow !! tested my self .

lbrpdx

GameCast I use Virtualbox for quick testing and screenshots of my EmulationStation developments 😉

GameCast

lbrpdx 😉 but for those people want use it for play , will get alot of problems ..

dewcansam

A couple of extra hints, if I may.
1. Set the virtualbox machine network settings to "Bridged Adapter". This will give the vm it's own ip. check with your router to find the new dhcp. This allows you to SSH into the vm. This pref is static. However, it seems that the SSH keys get remade, so they might be different each time.
2. F1 brings up the file manager. But if you go Tools >> Open term you get an error. Go to Edit >> Preferences >> Advanced >> Terminal and type in /usr/bin/xterm. Once inside the term to get back to EU you type exit and then Ctrl+Q. (If you try emulationstation in the term, you might get stuck in a loop. Note: that the term prefs are not static and will get overwritten at next boot.