Prerequisites for Running Photon OS on Raspberry Pi

Before you use Photon OS within RPi, perform the following prerequisite tasks:

Verify that you have the following resources:

Resource	Description
Raspberry Pi 3	Raspberry Pi 3 Model B or Model B+ board. This will serve as the target of the installation.
Raspberry Pi 4	Raspberry Pi 4 Model B or Model B+ board. This will serve as the target of the installation.
Host computer	A computer equipped with the following: 1. An SD card reader. 2. Software utilities to flash an image onto an SD-card (details and instructions provided below).
Distribution File	Photon OS RPi image downloaded from URL Note: Photon OS RPi image is available only from Photon 3.0 onwards.

Download Photon OS.
To install Photon OS on a Raspberry Pi, you must download the Photon OS RPi image, which is distributed as a compressed raw disk image with the file extension .raw.xz.
Note: You cannot use the Photon ISO to install on RPi.
Go to the following URL and download the latest release of Photon OS image for RPi: https://packages.vmware.com/photon/5.0/GA/rpi/rpi.tar.xz.
For instructions, see Downloading Photon OS.