Procedure on installing Google Chrome OS in VMware Digital Lime Green will guide you step-by-step on how you can install Chrome OS on your system using VMWare. This Linux-based operating system is designed by Google and derived from the free software called Chromium OS. However, I haven’t tried using it, so I can’t confirm that it will run on VMWare without issue.In this article, we will demonstrate how you can install and test Google Chrome OS on your Windows Operating System. Here’s the torrent of the same file posted up on Pirate Bay:ĭownload the Chromium OS VMWare Virtual Disk Image Torrent Update: I just went into the Chrome OS Wave I found with the link to the VMWare disk image, and apparently the poor guy that posted that file to Amazon Web Services ran up a $380 bill so he took the file down. You can download it here:ĭownload the Chromium OS VMWare Virtual Disk ImageĪs of now, the link to the VMWare disk image is valid and the download works. I also found a VMWare virtual disk image on a Google Wave about the Chrome OS. Eventually as drivers for more hardware are incorporated into it, it should be possible to run it your own real hardware. The fact that it actually works on a virtual machine is quite promising. In any case, it is rather neat to see an early release in action. Of course, it should load fast because there really is hardly anything there. Right now the most impressive thing is how fast this operating system loads. Your dear old granddad may be the only one that actually finds it visually appealing at this resolution. Of course, being that this is running on a virtual machine without any decent video drivers on the operating system, the resolution is quite low (800×600). Instead, you get a account login page.Īs you can see, it looks very much like the Chrome OS screenshots that had surfaced last month. The little chrome sphere appears in the upper left corner, but when you click on it you don’t get a menu as you see in some of the Chrome OS videos. There is also a Google Calendar tab and a New Tab tab. Once you log in with your Gmail account, it launches and you’ll see the Chromium interface open up to your Gmail. It really is nearly instant-on and takes a mere few seconds to bring up the login screen. It is absolutely astounding how fast it boots. That should bring up the Google Accounts login screen. If you don’t see a Google Accounts login screen, try hitting the refresh button. This should log you in and bring up the chrome browser window. If the network adapter is already properly configured but you are still seeing the error, try logging in with the user “chronos” with the password “password” (no quotes). If you get an error that says “network not connected and offline login fail” when you try to log in, be sure that the virtual network adapter is set to Intel Pro/1000 MT Desktop (82540EM). You should be running VirtualBox 3.0.12, and when you import the virtual appliance everything should be configured properly. If you use this machine for anything serious (although I doubt you would), be sure to change the password. You can run “sudo su” (no quotes) to log in as root, and I’ve set the password to “password” (no quotes). If you hit Ctrl+Alt+T when you first log in, you’ll get a shell prompt. I guess you could say I more or less took “script-like notes” as I was building Chromium OS. You may be able to run it as a script, although I haven’t confirmed that it will work. I also included a txt file that more or less has the commands I used to build it. The virtual appliance will be imported into VirtualBox and you should be good to go. Navigate to the chromiumos.ovf file and select it. To use it, just start up VirtualBox, click File and then Import. Please continue to seed, as I’m sure there will be many people out there wanting to try it out. I built a torrent for it, so feel free to download it here:ĭownload the Chromium OS VirtualBox Appliance Torrent I also managed to put together a VirtualBox virtual appliance that is all ready to go. It took some time, but I did manage to do this on my 64-bit Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) machine. The Chromium OS source code is available for download (Chromium OS is the open-source version of Google Chrome OS), and you can compile and build it. The Chromium Blog has some great videos that provide some additional information about Chrome OS as well. Google had an event at their headquarters, and indeed provided new details and a demo of the Chrome OS. They stated that the info came from a reliable source, and indeed that source was reliable. Last week, Techcrunch reported rumors of the release of the Google Chrome OS.
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