How-to: run Chrome OS as a virtual machine

Itching for some Chrome OS? Well, we all are, but you might be a bit disappointed at the fact that while Google has open-sourced its progress on the OS so far, the version that is currently available for download seems eons behind what Google showed off at its event yesterday. Still, if you just have to see it for yourself, the good news is that it's a total breeze to get a virtual machine running. We used a VMWare image that was packaged up by the kind folks at gdgt, and set it up with VMWare Fusion running on a recent model MacBook Pro. Your mileage may vary depending on your particular setup (there's also an image available for the free, cross-platform VirtualBox software), but the principles should remain the same. Check it out on video after the break.

[enmingteo Posted Nov 24th 2009 12:52AM]

2nd download link: http://www.filefactory.com/file/a1d69he/n/Google-Chrome-OS-build-enming.teo-24Nov2009-0528.vmdk.bz2

Please let me know how it works on your system.

[enmingteo Posted Nov 24th 2009 4:42AM]

3rd download link for latest Google Chrome OS (chromiumos):

http://www.mediafire.com/?jme4zmydzzb

[enmingteo Posted Nov 24th 2009 1:42PM]

Youtube Video of Google Chrome OS (ChromiumOS) in Action on VMware Workstation and Sun VirtualBox as a Virtual Machine

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSkszmeFcYg

Download my latest build of the Google Chrome OS (Chromium OS) VMware virtual machine VMDK image file from the following URL:

http://enmingteo.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/latest-google-chrome-os-download-guaranteed-to-work/

The latest build is enming.teo-24Nov2009-0528.

There are bugs in my previous build of chromiumos (Chrome browser-related). It is not fully functional. You should not use my previous build as seen in the following Youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icl59WmC56I

The current build works on Xen properly. You should download the latest image.

It is very easy to convert a VMDK image file to a Xen HVM domU image file if you want Google Chrome OS to work in a Xen environment as a fully virtualized guest operating system.

This is the guarantee that my latest build of chromiumos VMware virtual machine vmdk image will work with Xen (conversion required), VMware Workstation & Player, and Sun VirtualBox.

[wachtrij Posted Nov 25th 2009 8:46AM]

Trying to get this working in VMware Player on Window Vista, but it keeps saying "Operating System not found."

Help?

[jeffteague Posted Nov 28th 2009 1:52PM]

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