Raspberry-Pi

Testing Debian 12 ARM64 VM on Raspberry Pi 5 KVM: Pitfalls and Solutions

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After successfully setting up a Home Assistant OS (HAOS) VM on my Raspberry Pi 5 (KVM/libvirt approach), I wanted to test a minimal Debian 12 ARM64 VM for InfluxDB and Grafana.

My Setup So Far

  • Host: Raspberry Pi 5, 16GB RAM
  • Hypervisor: KVM / QEMU / libvirt
  • Guest: HAOS running smoothly
  • Management: Cockpit & virt-manager

Trying Debian 12 VM: Where virt-install Fails (and Why)

First attempt: I tried to launch a Debian 12 ARM64 VM using virt-install. Example command (does NOT work for ARM64 on RPi5):

WiFi Access Point Bridge with Raspberry Pi 3 – ETH to WLAN

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A Raspberry Pi WiFi Extender is a cheap and power efficient way of increasing the total range of your WiFi Network. In my case I needed to extend a WiFi coverage within the same LAN (bridge mode from Ethernet to WiFi).

I have found a working shortcut 😎 to create an access point following a GitHub project so I didn’t need to follow instructions from raspberrypi.org page – Using the Raspberry Pi as an access point to share an internet connection (bridge).