Run TeamViewer on Raspberry Pi

Step-by-step instruction on running TeamViewer on Raspberry Pi
using ExaGear Desktop

TeamViewer is a pretty popular remote access software but unfortunately it is not available for ARM-based devices such as Raspberry Pi 2. Luckily, there is a way to run TeamViewer on Raspberry Pi 2 and Raspberry Pi 3 using ExaGear Desktop, which allows to run x86 apps on Raspberry Pi devices.

Below is a simple instruction on how to run TeamViewer on your RPi 2 or RPi3. You can also find 2 more ways of running Remote Desktop on Raspberry Pi in one of our other posts.

Important note: please use this step-by-step instruction if you would like to run TeamViewer on Raspberry Pi Zero or Raspberry Pi 1. There are some additional tricks.

Raspberry Pi test stand configuration

Model	Raspberry Pi 2 Model B	Raspberry Pi 3
Frequency	900 MHz	1200 MHz
Memory	1 GB RAM	1 GB RAM
Operating System	Raspbian from March 2017	Raspbian from March 2017
Software	TeamViewer v12 Eltechs ExaGear Desktop for Raspberry Pi 2	TeamViewer v12 Eltechs ExaGear Desktop for Raspberry Pi 3

TeamViewer installation instruction

Install ExaGear Desktop

1. Install ExaGear Desktop using the following command:

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install exagear-desktop

Launch guest x86 system

2. Enter the guest x86 system using the following command:

$ exagear

Starting the shell in the guest image /opt/exagear/images/debian-8

A graphical windows will pop up and offer you to activate the trial of ExaGear Desktop. You’ll need to input your name and e-mail address.

ExaGear Desktop Trial for Raspberry Pi activation window

3. Once you submit the activation form you will be forwarded into the guest x86 system in the terminal. You can check that you are in x86 environment by running the ‘arch’ command:

$ arch

i686

4. It is recommended to update apt-get repositories on the first launch of the guest system:

$ sudo apt-get update

Install TeamViewer

5. Download TeamViewer:

$ wget http://download.teamviewer.com/download/version_12x/teamviewer_i386.deb

6. Install TeamViewer:

$ sudo dpkg -i teamviewer_i386.deb ; sudo apt-get install -f

7. Download wine1.6-2g-2g.tar.gz:

$ wget http://s3.amazonaws.com/wine1.6-2g-2g/wine1.6-2g-2g.tar.gz

8. Unpack and run teamviewer-fix-2g.sh script:

$ tar -xzvf wine1.6-2g-2g.tar.gz

$ sudo ./teamviewer-fix-2g.sh

Run TeamViewer

Please note that TeamViewer doesn’t work properly at the first launch if you access Raspbian desktop via any remote access program. To overcome the issue please connect Raspberry Pi to monitor, then run TeamViewer.

You will see TeamViewer GUI, will be asked to accept license agreement and then will have TeamViewer ready to connect. Please setup unattended access and save the ID and password. After that you can disconnect Raspberry Pi from the monitor and you will have remote access to Raspbian desktop using saved ID and password. You will be able to connect remotely even after the device reboot (as teamviewer daemon will autostart automatically).

Final notes

There are two tricky and not obvious steps in the instruction above: 8 and 9. The fact is that TeamViewer for Linux is based on Windows version of it and uses Wine to run TeamViewer for Windows on Linux OS. Also there are two OS configurations of splitting of 4g virtual memory: (i) 3g for application and 1g for Linux kernel; (ii) 2g for application and 2g for Linux kernel. They are called 3g/1g and 2g/2g memory split respectively. In x86 world all Linux systems use 3g/1g memory split but Raspbian uses 2g/2g from March 2015 release. Unfortunately Wine does not support 2g/2g memory split and fails on that kernel.

We patched Wine to support 2g/2g memory split and built it. We placed the patched version of Wine in the archive wine1.6-2g-2g.tar.gz (Step 8) and attached teamviewer-fix-2g.sh script (Step 9) which copies all the necessary files. That patched Wine avoids fails of Wine and TeamViewer.

Please note that you can run TeamViewer on Raspberry Pi Zero and Raspberry Pi 1, but with some tricks. For details please use this step-by-step instruction to run TeamViewer on RPi Zero and RPi 1.

It is worth to note that with ExaGear Desktop you can run many other x86 apps (e.g. Netflix for Raspberry Pi or OwnCloud) on RPi 2 and RPi 3. ExaGear also supports the first generation of Raspberry Pi and another ARM-based devices, such as Odroid, Banana Pi, Beagleboard, Cubox, Jetson, Cubieboard etc.

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Greg Crow

Can anyone let me know how to add exagear to auto start on the desktop when I have my pi (user) auto-logging in and inside exagear I want to have teamviewer autostart.

I have exagear working and teamviewer working, but just want it to autostart.
- kambarg
  
  Teamviewer autostart works fine on Raspberry Pi 2 with ExaGear. Linux version of TeamViewer has a daemon that autostarts after system reboot. To check it reboot the system, then open the terminal and execute the following command:
  ps -ef | grep teamviewer
  
  TeamViewer daemon is up and running if you see the output like this:
  root 817 1 8 19:22 ? 00:00:12 /opt/exagear/bin/ubt_x32a32_al –path-prefix /opt/exagear/images/debian-8-wine2g –vpaths-list /opt/exagear/images/debian-8-wine2g/.exagear/vpaths-list — /opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/teamviewerd -d
  
  Well then you can check that remote connection works.
  - Carsten Sachse
    
    Hello,
    
    how can i connect the team viewer via wifi? not LAN? is there any trick?
    - kambarg
      
      Do you mean you have an internet connection on your ARM device via wifi?
      - Carsten Sachse
        
        Hello,
        
        i have an Raspberry Pi 3 running with wifi and i get no Connection via wifi with Teamviewer.
      - kambarg
        
        Could you please send email to support_at_eltechs.com and provide more details about the issue?
        What is exact error message?
        What is the version of TeamViewer?
        What is the version of host ARM system?
        Is TeamViewer daemon is up and running?
kambarg

TeamViewer 11 also works with this instruction.
Geoff Newnham

Followed all the instructions to get this installed, which all went ok.

Rebooted the pi and logged in as root user which got stop the command prompt. From command prompt typed in ‘exagear’ and and then ‘teamviewer’. See the prompts ‘Launching Teamviewer …’ then ‘Launching Teamviewer GUI …’ then it just goes back to the command prompt. How do I get to see the Teamviewer window so I can try connecting?
- kambarg
  
  Strange… Is TeamViewer daemon running? Could you please send email with details of your issue?
- mapty
  
  I have the exact same issue currently, have you found a solution ?
Antonio Marcheselli

Hi there
I have installed teamviewer on my Pi2, it starts but it says there is no network connection. In fact I do have network connectivity but from the terminal window I can NOT ping the internet after I run exagear (I can on another window if I don’t run exagear).
Can you help me?
Thanks
- kambarg
  
  Hello Antonio!
  Your issue is not clear for me. How do you check the internet after running exagear? Could you give the exact command and its output? And could you please send email on support [at] eltechs.com as it would be easier to communicate.
  - Antonio Marcheselli
    
    Hi, thanks for your help.
    I’ve sent an email.
    - Ricky
      
      Hi there, I am having the same issue on my Pi1, would you be able to share the fix? Thanks
      - kambarg
        
        Hello Ricky!
        Could you give more details about the issue?
Evangelos Logaras

Hi there. I just installed exagear and Teamviewer as described here:

http://eltechs.com/run-teamviewer-on-raspberry-pi/

but I cannot start the teamviewerd daemon using the teamviewer –daemon start command. When I try to start teamviewer I get the message that the daemon is not running.

Also tried with Teamviewer 10 and 11 gives same result.

Any help from exagear is welcome.
- kambarg
  
  Hi! More details required to understand the problem. Could you send an email to support [at] eltechs.com and provide your ARM device model and operating system version.
  Also why do you want to start deamon manually? In the case described in the instruction the daemon starts automatically on the first run of TeamViewer GUI.
  - Evangelos Logaras
    
    Hi. I tried even without starting manually the daemon. I tried that because this is what is written in the message I get from teamviewer (the daemon is not running, try to start it manually). I will send an email to the account you mentioned. Thank you.
    - kambarg
      
      I found that TeamViewer shows the message that daemon not started if you run TeamViewer remotely. I mean if you are not using the monitor directly connected to your device but forwarding graphics to your another device in the local network. It was Teamviewer behavior on any of my devices (x86 devices also).
Mladen Gradev

Hi, thanks for this software. I did what I needed, but can not believe how hard it is to work on Linux…
PMImbeau

Hi. Does anyone knows how to set up ExaGear Desktop and TeamViewer to auto start at the power up of RPI2? I have to
1) launch lxterminal,
2) enter “exagear”
3) then enter “teamviewer”
to get the TeamViewer GUI window. I want to know if there is a way so set-up my RPI2 to get the TeamViewer GUI window opened automatically after power up. Thanks!
- kambarg
  
  Hello!
  I tested TeamViewer 11 and 10 on Raspbian 8 with ExaGear Desktop and TeamViewer started up after system reboot. Once you Raspbian desktop is booted after a while (not very long time actually) you should be able to see TeamViewer icon on the top of the desktop panel and by clicking on it you can open TeamViewer GUI window.
  Please try again and if the issue repeats send email on support [at] eltechs.com.
  - T jones
    
    I think the problem PMImbeau describes pertains to running it headless. Your solution entails clicking on teamviewer while working on the raspberry pi to open it. This means every time you reboot the pi you will need to be in front of it to restart the remote session. For example if you are running this remotely from your summer cottage you better hope it doesn’t shut off on you or you have to go home to restart it.
    - kambarg
      
      The instruction above describes the first run of TeamViewer after it is installed. First time when you click on TeamViewer you open its GUI and start its daemon. After that the daemon autostarts after system reboot and enables remote connection. Previous remote session will close but if you setup unattended access in advance (and define personal password) you will be able to setup new remote access to RasPi via TeamViewer without physical access to RasPi device.
      - nascent
        
        Managed to finally get it working on raspbian on my pi2. However I can’t figure out how to sit up for unattended access. There’s no option menu anywhere.
      - kambarg
        
        Connection -> Setup unattended access
Spike

Have got this all working on my Raspberry Pi 3. Did find that a few reboots were needed in places though before everything worked. I have one more issue now that someone may have encountered before.
I am trying to run the Raspberry Pi ‘headless’ – that is to say without local display or keyboard/mouse. When I connect via Teamviewer I get a tiny teeny display about 300 x 200 px. Any idea please how to change this?
- kambarg
  
  From what device do you connect to Raspberry Pi? Did you select Desktop environment as the boot option on the Raspberry Pi?
  - Spike
    
    Thank you for reply @kambarg:disqus – I had to edit /boot/config.txt as per my reply above ^^^^
- TomCat
  
  You have to set graphics resolution in config.txt to a specific value instead of auto sensing, then it works
  - Spike
    
    Yes thanks @TomCat – I found some tips on http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/8985/forcing-resolution-on-display-0-when-hdmi-is-not-connected and used
    
    hdmi_force_hotplug=1
    hdmi_group=1
    hdmi_mode=16
    
    which seems to work nicely.
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klausbusse

Have a problem with Raspberry Ri3, see below.

root@raspberrypi:~# exagear
Starting /bin/bash in the guest image /opt/exagear/images/debian-8-wine2g
root@raspberrypi:~# teamviewer –daemon start

systemctl start teamviewerd.service
Job for teamviewerd.service failed. See ‘systemctl status teamviewerd.service’ and ‘journalctl -xn’ for details.
fail

root@raspberrypi:~#
- kambarg
  
  I can’t repeat this issue on my Raspberry Pi 3. Please email on support_at_aeltechs.com, need to check lots of details with your particular installation.
Anna

Hello, This is Anna from TeamViewer. Good news! TeamViewer hat jetzt eine Preview App für Raspberry Pi:
https://pages.teamviewer.com/raspberrypi/

With the launch of the Raspberry Pi support we have also started a developer’s contest: https://pages.teamviewer.com/raspberrypi_contest/

Please get in touch with us at any time if you need more infos!
Anna

Good news! TeamViewer now has launched a Preview App for Raspberry Pi:
https://pages.teamviewer.com/raspberrypi/

With the launch of the preview we have also started a contest to develop an innovative IoT use case for TeamViewer on Raspberry Pi: https://pages.teamviewer.com/raspberrypi_contest/

Please get in touch with us at any time if you have questions!

11:54
pasha

is possible to install timeviewer raspberry 3 ?
on ubuntu mate
- kambarg
  
  Yes
- Valentin Genard
  
  here http://www.teamviewer.com/raspberrypi
Valentin Genard

Or just http://www.teamviewer.com/raspberrypi
Uzumaki Nagato

This doesn’t work anymore.
- kambarg
  
  Could you please clarify what is the issue? TeamViewer installation, running or connection? What is the version of TeamViewer, ExaGear and operating system? What is the device model?
  - Uzumaki Nagato
    
    The first command doesn’t work on Raspbian jessie. RPi 2.
    - kambarg
      
      Could you please give the exact output of the first command?
Christo

Hello
Does anyone know how to Setup TeamViewer on Raspberry Pi 3 Running Fedora 24.
Any Help will be appreciated
Thank you in Advanced
Derek

My txt file that I got teamvier to display headless without monitor

/boot/config.txt file

##############################

#TESTED AND WORKS BELOW
# Force the monitor to HDMI mode so that sound will be sent over HDMI cable
hdmi_drive=2
# Set monitor mode to DMT
hdmi_group=2
# Set monitor resolution to 1024×768 XGA 60Hz (HDMI_DMT_XGA_60)
#hdmi_mode=16
#hdmi_mode=23
hdmi_mode=28
# Make display smaller to stop text spilling off the screen
overscan_left=20
overscan_right=12
overscan_top=10
overscan_bottom=10
framebuffer_width=1920
framebuffer_height=1080
Cedlive75

Hi,
I currently run TW 11. Can you post procedure for updating to V12 please ?
- kambarg
  
  Enter the guest x86 system and follow the standard approach on updating the software (as it is recommended by developer).
  - Cedlive75
    
    I did it but nothing start after upgrade and I get “cannot execute binary file: Exec format error” when I launch teamviewer.
    What I have to do ?
    - Cedlive75
      
      Ok now I have no error when I launch TW but no service !!! When I downgrade to TW11 it works again. Why does V12 can’t work ?
    - kambarg
      
      Not enough info to recommend you anything. It is better for you to submit detailed report to support@eltechs.com or on forum.eltechs.com. Describe in details the current state, the version of teamviewer, the command you are running and it output.
JAT25

i follow all step by step but nothing happened
- kambarg
  
  Could you please try to do following.
  Enter the guest x86 system:
  $ exagear
  run TeamViewer:
  $ teamviewer

Run TeamViewer on Raspberry Pi

Step-by-step instruction on running TeamViewer on Raspberry Pi using ExaGear Desktop

Raspberry Pi test stand configuration

TeamViewer installation instruction

Install ExaGear Desktop

Launch guest x86 system

Install TeamViewer

Run TeamViewer

Final notes

Get my ExaGear Desktop

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