I have noticed some programs that I had to compile from source on Bullseye are now "sudo apt-get install xxx" on Bookworm.
Dependencies can be an issues, previously I had to compile those from source too.
Retropie is a volunteer made app, I think.
There has been lots of changes since it was made to the Pi5 hardware and software.
If Retropie has not been updated for Pi5 then don't even bother trying to use it.
Or learn how to update it yourself, which is not easy otherwise it would have been done by now.
You should be asking on the Retropie forum about progress those are the experts.
There was a way to change boot order in the boot Eprom for Pi4, it would be nice to have that in Pi5.
A little menu at the start to pick which storage to boot from, uSD, USB, PCIe.
There are a few emulation YT vids out there now for Pi5, Dolphin, PS2....
Retropie is collection of those emulators with a nice wrapper to make it easy for users.
Does each one of those emulators have to be ported to Bookworm/Pi5 before Retropie can wrap them up?
I just checked the Pi5 posts on Retropie forum, yep they know lots more about the issues than anyone here in this post.
I gather you need to start with Bookworm Lite then do a bunch of stuff.
As to your original question
Is the Pi5 fast enough to run something like Retropie in a VM and output to the second HDMI?
I don't know but I have run 7 VMs with framebuffer graphics at the same time on a Pi400.
I could size and move the VM windows to whereever I wanted, including second HDMI.
There has been some advancements to Mesa so Zink, Virgl etc are getting usable.
This means doing graphics in VMs.
Has anyone tried it yet?
Dependencies can be an issues, previously I had to compile those from source too.
Retropie is a volunteer made app, I think.
There has been lots of changes since it was made to the Pi5 hardware and software.
If Retropie has not been updated for Pi5 then don't even bother trying to use it.
Or learn how to update it yourself, which is not easy otherwise it would have been done by now.
You should be asking on the Retropie forum about progress those are the experts.
There was a way to change boot order in the boot Eprom for Pi4, it would be nice to have that in Pi5.
A little menu at the start to pick which storage to boot from, uSD, USB, PCIe.
There are a few emulation YT vids out there now for Pi5, Dolphin, PS2....
Retropie is collection of those emulators with a nice wrapper to make it easy for users.
Does each one of those emulators have to be ported to Bookworm/Pi5 before Retropie can wrap them up?
I just checked the Pi5 posts on Retropie forum, yep they know lots more about the issues than anyone here in this post.
I gather you need to start with Bookworm Lite then do a bunch of stuff.
As to your original question
Is the Pi5 fast enough to run something like Retropie in a VM and output to the second HDMI?
I don't know but I have run 7 VMs with framebuffer graphics at the same time on a Pi400.
I could size and move the VM windows to whereever I wanted, including second HDMI.
There has been some advancements to Mesa so Zink, Virgl etc are getting usable.
This means doing graphics in VMs.
Has anyone tried it yet?
Statistics: Posted by Gavinmc42 — Sun Jan 21, 2024 12:43 am