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The new Pi 3 was announced this morning. It's the first Pi to ship with a 64-bit processor, the ARM Cortex A53. The product page for that chip suggests that it's capable of hardware virtualization. Given that Raspbian is currently a 32-bit only environment, are there any virtualization programs that will run on Raspbian which will allow me to run 64-bit applications?

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@jason.kaisersmith Docker won't work on the RaspberryPi (regardless of version) without some significant rework. The Docker site indicates that docker requires a 64-bit OS (https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/linux/debian/).

Some work has been done to make it work on the pi (http://resin.io), though I'm still evaluating how well it actually works in practice.

To answer the specific questions asked, I've never encountered a virtualization engine that would allow you to emulate a higher bit OS/Architecture than was running on the host system. I don't believe that it is possible, and if it is possible, it would be terribly slow.

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While not full virtualization, have you considered Dockker on pi?

https://www.docker.com/what-docker

Docker allows you to host containers, which are lightweight and offer a lot of flexibility. They have advantages (and disadvantages) when compared to full virtualization but depending on what you want to do they can be very flexible.

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I've not tried docker on Pi, but do have it on my laptop and if you are somebody who likes to try new things and tinker then it's great.

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