Tag Archives: virtualization
Chromoting Fits the Chrome OS Thin Client Model
Posted on 10. Jun, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 
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The idea of Chromoting as a way to bridge the gap between the web-enabled environments of the future over to the old model of installed applications on Windows, Mac and Linux seems to fit with the overall theme of Chrome OS. That theme is to get away from natively installed applications, though many of us still will rely on these “legacy” apps to some degree.
In the smartphone realm, the use of remote desktop is possible to go into our computer at home or at work to do things. Chromoting will be no different than that, installed as an extension on a Chrome OS device with another application on whatever other machine you need to remote into.
As cloud computing in ramps up from an operating system standpoint, there is going to be some software that simply will not be available in the cloud. Although it is true when Google says that most major applications are coming out today arrive web-based, there are still some resource-heavy tasks that require a traditional computer. Chromoting thus offers power users the ability to possibly use virtualization on servers to harness both Chrome OS and whatever applications they may need directly through the cloud.
I can see a variety of uses for Chromoting, and not just as a stopgap solution for legacy purposes but also as a path to allow Chrome OS to act as a window to more process-intensive computing capabilities. One would not only be able to use it to access powerful software tools on a thin client Chrome OS device, but the enterprise would benefit as well. I could see IT support analysts, salespeople and health professionals utilizing Chromoting on a tablet or netbook to access resources in a safe and controlled way that perhaps other devices would be unable to.
What other intriguing purposes could Chromoting provide for that I have missed?
Using Chrome OS with Parallels on Mac
Posted on 18. Jan, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 1 Comments
To all the Mac fans out there: have hope. This is a high-quality post from Cultofmac on using Parallels to VM Chrome OS. Parallels seems to be the virtualization software that is more focused on the Mac market than any other OS that’s out there. Many users have had concerns that they cannot run Chrome OS because they use Apple products, but this post shows that is not always the case! I don’t know if it is possible to run Chrome OS directly off of a USB drive in Mac, so please post on the forum so we know.
Anyways, you can find the tutorial right here.
Enjoy!
