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Daily Chrome OS Builds for VMWare and VirtualBox Now Available
Posted on 13. Mar, 2011 by Daniel Cawrey. 
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Hexxeh has now made available for everyone daily Chrome OS builds that can be used in VM. He has created both VMWare and VirtualBox versions of his Chrome OS Vanilla, which are snapshot builds of Chromium OS that the Chromium Team works on developing every day.
If you’ve been frustrated because you did not get a Cr-48 or you could not get Chrome OS Vanilla to work on your own PC for hardware reasons, there is now an alternative with these new images that have been released today.
The instructions are pretty simple, according to Hexxeh.
To use this, just create a new virtual machine in VirtualBox, and when it asks whether you want to create a new hard drive or use an existing one, point it to the VDI file you downloaded and extracted. Using the VMWare downloads is even easier! Simply download, install VMWare Player and then double click the VMX file in the archive you downloaded.
Around 6PM GMT every day a new build is release, and while not all of these are stable, an auto-update function in the VM images will keep you updated on the newest features that are arriving in Chromium OS. The open source version of the operating system is where most things are tested, and generally appear before arriving in Chrome OS Beta.
via Hexxeh.net
thechromesource Daily: Links for 5/19/10
Posted on 19. May, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 0 Comments
Predictive pre-connections are coming to Chrome 6 to make it even faster. Here is a breakdown of what this is.
Wave, a collaborative service that has been in testing since last year’s Google I/O, no longer requires an invite.
VMWare and Google are going to be partnering up for better integration and deployment of Google Apps.
Google Storage for Developers has been announced, with 100GB of storage and 300GB monthly bandwidth for no charge.
The Google App Engine for Business has been introduced, allowing developers to quickly create new enterprise applications.
Here is Google’s official breakdown of all the announcements that occurred during I/O’s Day One.
Chrome OS Zero VM Image Available
Posted on 19. Jan, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 8 Comments
One of the problems that I experienced with Chrome OS Zero is that I was unable to get the image that Hexxeh released to work in either VMWare or VirtualBox. I spent an entire morning over the weekend banging my head to no avail, although it’s possible I couldn’t get it to work because of said head-banging. Fortunately, Hexxeh now has a VM image up on his site, so for those of you wanting to run Chrome OS Zero using VMWare, here is your chance!
Note: According to Hexxeh’s Twitter account, this doesn’t appear to work with Sun’s VirtualBox. I assumed he tried it after converting it into a vdi file since his site is hosting a vmdk file. Oh Well.
Where to Download Chrome OS
Posted on 04. Dec, 2009 by Daniel Cawrey. 0 Comments
At this point, there are already several different flavors of Chrome available. It all depends on what kind of system you plan on installing Chrome OS on, and we can give you a run down on what you need to know.
If you want to run Chrome on a virtual machine (VM) such as Sun’s VirtualBox or VMware, you can get a compiled version of Chrome OS here.
As reported earlier, there is a version that has been released by Dell that has been successfully tested on their Mini 10v. The build is loaded via a USB device, and you will need one that has a spare 8 GB. You can get it here.
There is a smaller more comprehensive version of Chrome OS that has been developed as well. According to the developer, it offers a wide array of support in terms of hardware. This is by far the most comprehensive site that is out there, and also offers excellent instructions on how to install Chrome. The version is called Chrome OS Cherry, and the build supports wifi and can be loaded on a 1GB memory stick.
