This comes up at least one per month and if you look at the archives you will see the number of reason and responses from RIPE as to why this not currently in the pipeline.

https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-atlas/2015-December/002521.html
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/suzanne_taylor_muzzin/exploring-the-idea-of-ripe-atlas-virtual-probes

On 10 June 2016 at 11:50, Colin Johnston <colinj@mx5.org.uk> wrote:
+1 for vm image virtual force :)

Colin

> On 10 Jun 2016, at 09:16, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 09:40:03AM +0000,
> Ripe Blue Networks <ripe@blue-networks.de> wrote
> a message of 344 lines which said:
>
>> Have you an Image or something similar to use the raspberry as RIPE
>> Atlas Probe for example?
>
> Don't think so. See the FAQ <https://atlas.ripe.net/about/faq/>, the
> question "Why did you choose a hardware solution instead of software?"
>
>