Goal: Setup a virtual machine with Debian (from which Raspbian is derived). I’ve been playing around a lot on the Pi itself, but it’d be convenient to have an environment setup where I could experiment with code even when I don’t have access to the Pi. At the time he wrote his article, I don’t think the Pi was even really available to the public yet. I recently started flipping through The MagPi back-issues, and came across an article where someone talked about setting up a virtual Raspberry Pi environment.