VMware brings ESXi to Raspberry Pi

VMware will show off “Build Zero” of its flagship virtualisation product ESXi running on a Raspberry Pi.The company announced a build of ESXi for ARM CPUs at its VMworld USA conference in August, immediately sparking excitement at the prospect of either running home labs or real workloads on $40 computers.But VMware rained on that parade with news that ESXi for ARM was aimed at the few enterprise-grade ARM CPUs. However, the company revealed at VMworld Europe that it had worked on a version of ESXi for Raspberry Pi.And next week it will show it off at Amazon Web Services’ Re:Invent conference in Las Vegas.