Chrome OS running on DELL Mini v10

An employee of DELL writes in his blog that he made ChromiumOS run on a Dell Mini v10. He also has released a USB image that you can download to run ChromiumOS on such a machine. He markes the image as highly experimental, but nonetheless you can easily try and write the image to a pen drive.

Running Chrome OS on Virtual Box

This post describes how you can get Chrome OS running in a quarter of an hour in Virtual Box.

First make sure you have the latest version of VirtualBox installed.

Then get the Chrome OS image by downloading this virtual image.

Start virtual box and click "next":

Press "next":

Enter a name and the OS type and press "next":

Enter a reasonable amount of memory and press "next":

Choose "Use existing hard disk" and click on the folder icon on the left:

Click on "add":

Choose the vmdk file you downloaded and unpacked before and press "select":

Click "next":

Select the newly created Chrome OS and click "start":

After Chrome OS booted into the login screen, use a valid Google account to login:

...and enjoy what is there:-):

Chrome OS/ Chromium source code released

Yesterday was the day that competitors as well as tech geeks were waiting for: Google released the source code for their new operating system called Chrome OS. Google promises fast boot, thanks to three optimized components: a customized bios, on top of it an adapted linux kernel and on top of that the Chrome browser. Everything runs in the browser and all applications run in the browser as well.
Here you can find detailed build instructions. For now only x86 architecture is supported, but they aim at having Chrome OS running on ARM architecture as well.

The idea of Chrome OS is striking: you don't have to deal with driver and application updates anymore. Keep the whole operating system as lean as possible (or should I say thin?!) and run everything else on the cloud. Can't wait to get my hands on a live image of Chrome OS...

Stay chromed!