Once you have downloaded the CM-Boot-Installer.exe file, double-click on it and use the default settings offered by the setup wizard. You can find the installer for ‘RPi Boot’ here. The quickest way to do that is to use the Windows ‘RPi Boot’ tool for proof of life. If you want to go ahead and download the ‘ Small Installation Image’ for your machine (the amd64 image for most 64-bit PC users) while you continue reading, this is the one we will be using.īefore we do anything else, it is always a good idea to make sure we aren’t wasting time on a module that died in transit. However, to keep the Linux familiar to Raspbian users (and because I’ve always liked it), I decided to use (Raspbian’s Grand-Daddy) the Debian distro in this little project. While it is perfectly feasible to accomplish this goal with a spare Raspberry Pi, I thought it would interesting to install Linux on a virtual machine running on a standard Windows 10 PC and then use this virtual machine to flash the compute module. In order to use all that lovely Pi processing power on the standard module, we need to flash an OS onto the eMMC memory. This version of the break-out board has an SD card socket to support the ‘Lite’ module variant but otherwise is the same as the original CMIO board. There is also a new version of the Compute Module I/O board, the CMIO V3. Instead, the SD/eMMC interface is routed to previously unused edge connector pins, making the interface available for the user to connect their own SD card or eMMC devices. The Lite module dispenses with the eMMC memory. It is pin compatible with the existing Compute Module. The Standard module features the same 1.2GHz Broadcom BCM2837 (64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex A53 CPU with VideoCore IV GPU) found in the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B and sports 1GByte LPDDR2 RAM and 4GBytes eMMC flash memory. There are two variants of the CM3: Standard and Lite. “What can we expect from this next gen Compute Module?” I hear you say. Those industrious folks at the Raspberry Pi Foundation have been hard at it, developing the next generation of the Raspberry Pi Compute Module called the Compute Module 3, or CM3 for short.

Raspberry pi virtualbox shared folder