Saturday, November 21, 2009

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:-):

2 comments:

Justauser said...

got booted but the login failed because the network isn't online. I have the default for the network adapter.

Martin said...

Hi,

Excellent howto. Worked first time for me. Before starting I set network card to bridged, and it went straight through to my google login no problem.

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