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Getting XBMC from the repos (doesn't work in Wheezy)
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* Use a dedicated image [http://www.raspbmc.com/download/ raspbmc] or [http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php?title=Installing_OpenELEC_on_Raspberry_Pi openelec]
Building XBMC on the raspi (takes a long time)
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* Getting XBMC from the repos (doesn't work in Wheezy)
Building XBMC on a Windows machine (Qemu)
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* Adding a 3rd party apt source (none available yet)
 
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* Installing a .deb [http://selfprogramming.bplaced.net/index.php/2012/10/05/new-xbmcdeb-mainline-tree-for-raspberry-pi/comments/ nIerSify]
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* Building XBMC on the raspi (takes a long time)
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* Building XBMC on a x86 machine (Qemu or cross compile)
  
 
==Building XBMC from source using Qemu==
 
==Building XBMC from source using Qemu==

Revision as of 11:09, 14 October 2012

WORK IN PROGRESS, PLEASE AMEND


As I can't find a decent one-page overview of how to get XBMC working on the Raspberry Pi without resorting to downloading a dedicated image, this page should give everyone a hand getting set up (that is, if I am successful...)

The goal is to be able to run XBMC either standalone or under LXDE from the Foundation's Raspbian image.

This guide combines e.g.

Ways of installing XBMC

  • Use a dedicated image raspbmc or openelec
  • Getting XBMC from the repos (doesn't work in Wheezy)
  • Adding a 3rd party apt source (none available yet)
  • Installing a .deb nIerSify
  • Building XBMC on the raspi (takes a long time)
  • Building XBMC on a x86 machine (Qemu or cross compile)

Building XBMC from source using Qemu

Since it is unbelievably slow to build XBMC on the Raspberry Pi, I used a Windows machine with Qemu to do the build. Ubuntu cross-compile should work to0, but I didn't try it yet...

Preparation

After installing OpenVPN follow this guide to create (remember it's name and make sure there's no spaces in it) a network TAP interface http://linuxclues.blogspot.com/2007/06/installing-qemu-on-windows-vista.html


On Windows, create folder structure like so:

D:\Qemu (holding the Qemu-1.2.0-rc0-windows.zip contents)
D:\Qemu\Raspbian (holding the 'kernel-qemu' file and the Raspbian image)


First you need to use qemu-img to resize the img file:


Usage is: qemu-img resize filename size

It helps to temporarily move the wheezy image into D:\Qemu

3.7G seems to be the max you can resize to.


Open comandline and navigate to D:\Qemu

Example: qemu-img resize 2012-09-18-wheezy-raspbian.img 3.7G


Then create a .bat file under D:\Qemu, containing the following launch string:

qemu-system-armw.exe -M versatilepb -cpu arm1136 -m 1024 -kernel raspbian\kernel-qemu -hda raspbian\2012-09-18-wheezy-raspbian.img -net nic -net tap,ifname=TAP0 -append "root=/dev/sda2 panic=1" -serial stdio

Note: Replace TAP0 with whatever your Tap interface is named. I would suggest renaming it to something without spaces. ie. Tap0


Resize the Raspbian rootfs:


Fix raspi-config resize issue with Qemu:

cp /usr/bin/raspi-config ~
sed -i 's/mmcblk0p2/sda2/' ~/raspi-config                                                                              
sed -i 's/mmcblk0/sda/' ~/raspi-config
sudo ~/raspi-config


http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianXBMC

References