In his eternal quest for more Pi power, Les Pounder would give an ARM and maybe a leg to run x86 code on his Raspberry Pi.
The x86 CPU is in our laptops, desktops and in our data centres. But for mobile devices and the Raspberry Pi, ARM CPUs dominate the market thanks to their power consumption and relevant size to processing power. Applications are compiled to use the architecture (ARM/x86) of the device they’re intended to be used on, but what if you need to use an x86 application on an ARM CPU? ExaGear Desktop from Eltechs is a virtual machine emulator that claims to run “...any kind of software on almost any hardware” and it does run x86 software on the ARM CPU, albeit with some limitations.
Installation is painless, requiring a payment of around £21 for a single Raspberry Pi 3 licence. Once the payment has gone through you’ll be emailed a link to download your copy of the software, and a licence key file.
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