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Google Chrome OS: Download Chrome OS VMWare image
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by SatharielTopic: Download Chrome OS VMWare image
430 replies / Originally posted by dave / Latest reply from robotlover / Topic is open
After Google announced the availability of the Chrome OS / Chromium OS source code, one of our engineers (Jon Ursenbach), immediately got to work on compiling the code, trying to see if he could get an instance of Chromium OS running in a virtual machine.He was finally able to do it! You can download a copy of the virtual machine to use in VMware, VirtualBox, and on a USB drive here (300MB compressed / 700MB uncompressed):
http://gdgt.com/google/chrome-os/download/Helpful tips, if you download it:
1.) To use the vmdk file, open VMware and create a new virtual machine. One of the options will be to use an "existing virtual disk." (In VMware Fusion, this is the last option below, "use operating system disk" and "use OS disc image file.")
2.) Make sure your VM is set to use bridged networking, rather than NAT.
2.) The username and password to login to Chrome OS / Chromium OS is your google account!Alternatively, if you don't have VMware, some users have had luck getting this image to run using VirtualBox, which is a free cross-platform (Windows / Mac / Linux) virtual machine created by Sun Microsystem. You can download VirtualBox here:
http://www.virtualbox.org/Anyway, get downloading and try out Chrome OS! And definitely share your impressions.
Update: we now have downloads for VMWare, VirtualBox, and USB-install! (Watch out for the USB one, you need Linux and it's a bit tricky.) Stay tuned for more details, but share your tips, tricks, and notes!
Update 2: Paul Miller from Engadget made a video walk-thru:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/20/how-to-run-chrome-os-
as-a-virtual-machine/-->Posted 20 hours ago -->
Quick note: delete the existing hard drive so you can add the GDGT Virtual Hard Drive-->Posted 18 hours ago -->
can you elaborate? i cannot seem to boot the image and I get a "boot failure" message.-->Posted 8 hours ago -->
Is there a chance it will run on OSX VM clients like parallels?If not, are there plans for OSX specific builds?
-->Posted 17 hours ago -->
There are a few users who were able to get it running in Parallels. Check further down in this discussion!-->Posted 16 hours ago -->
VirtualBox runs on OSX too :) I recently went from Parallels to VirtualBox-->Posted 49 minutes ago -->
Can someone just post a step-by-step that gets us past the Network not connected error?-->Posted 13 hours ago -->
I got the same "Netework not conneted" error. The network is bridged already. How do I fix it?-->Posted 10 hours ago -->
I basically switched to NAT, then back to bridge and about 20 seconds later I was able to login. That could have been coincidental.-->Posted 8 hours ago -->
Right click the network icon in the bottom right hand corner of the vmware screen. Select "disconnect" from the pop up menu. Then repeat the process and select "connect".-->Posted 7 hours ago -->
Yes, please, for god's sake. These choices aren't working.-->Posted 6 hours ago -->
same problem here... tried all options (NAT, Bridged airport/ethernet), connect/disconnect and no luck... still can't get online...-->Posted 5 hours ago -->
help needed here as well!-->Posted 4 hours ago -->
I got it working. I'm on Windows 7 and I had to run virtualbox as an administrator or else the network wouldn't work.-->Posted 4 hours ago -->
My Configuration: Virtualbox on MacOS, using vmware disk image.Could not get the network connection to work at all no matter what I tried. Then wondered if my office firewall or network was the problem. I disconnected from the network; tethered the mac to my 3G phone and restarted the ChromeOS image. VICTORY - I was able to log in.
I suspect that when I get home later and try from home network that I won't have any problems.
-->Posted 3 hours ago -->
I was unable to login while my host machine was behind a proxy server. I switched to a public wireless network and the problem was solved.-->Posted 3 hours ago -->
Here's a link to engaget with a video on how to get it running.I will watch the video and try it.
Hopefully it works for someone out there.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/20/how-to-run-chrome-os-
as-a-virtual-machine/-->Posted 1 hour ago -->
Just downloaded Chrome Vbox image ... Will report then ...-->Posted 13 hours ago -->
Running VirtualBox 3.0.12 on Win7 - the VDI wouldn't boot (just hung at the opening black screen) but the VMDK has booted and is running.It's interesting as a concept, but it clearly is very early in the development process...
-->Posted 10 hours ago -->
I'm having this problem as well.. a bit frustrating.-->Posted 10 hours ago -->
Same here, just black screen with Virtualbox-->Posted 10 hours ago -->
Me too, just black screen with Virtualbox 3.0.12 on Windows VISTA.-->Posted 10 hours ago -->
Just found this image, works beautiful with Virtualbox:-->Posted 9 hours ago -->
same for me, VMDK file works fine though. I did get an error about the security certificate being revoked for google.com when it tried to load the gmail tab, under options you can uncheck a box so it doesn't look for this and everything loaded fine; although that makes me a little nervous. (this only happened the first time I booted it up)-->Posted 8 hours ago -->
I have written a guide here using VirtualBox and the VMDK image:How to Install Chrome OS in VirtualBox -- http://bit.ly/7Lz2Id
-->Posted 7 hours ago -->
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Great piece, as always, by Neven Mrgan.
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