Want to try Chrome OS? Download VMTK or VDI image.

[noaccount]

Want to try Chrome OS? Download VMDK or VDI image, see for yourself, it's a 300 MB download.



Register into this site and download one of the available images:
http://gdgt.com/google/chrome-os/download/

Further information/discussion:
http://discuss.gdgt.com/google/chrome-os/general/download-chrome-os-vmware-image/

[vickypark]

why'd u post this in linux???
good find
screenshots: http://www.engadget.com/photos/google-chrome-os-pr-screenshots/#2466769

[noaccount]

why'd u post this in linux???

bcose this is linux.
but i'm no expert, so if this is wrong, mods please move it.

btw this is not official build, read this

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.

i don't have time right now but i'll be testing this over the weekend (i hope)

[vickypark]

bcose this is linux.
but i'm no expert, so if this is wrong, mods please move it.

sorry man never knew google chrome was linux based

[noaccount]

cool, i didn't know that was polemic. just don't ask me what is the distro bcoz i dunno.

The Linux-based operating system will sport a graphical user interface based on Google's Chrome web browser and will run on systems with either x86 or ARM processors,[3]. Chrome OS is designed for netbooks and is thus separate from the Android operating system, which was designed primarily for use on smartphones, with support for conventional applications running on the device.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrome_os

The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html

[luffy]

VMWare or VirtualBox? what will you choose for a computer with Windows base?

[hellnoire]

Both VMWare and VirtualBox are Virtual PC managers, luffy, that work cross platform. Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris, etc, all are able to use them.

That being said, I believe I'd rather shoot myself then give more data to Google. (Though sadly, I'm using a gmail account now)

[Amature Programmer]

Google Chrome can be used on windows right? Im not interested i do not fancy Chrome im a FF person.

[noaccount]

VMWare or VirtualBox? what will you choose for a computer with Windows base?

Like hellnoire just said, any of them should work. But i advise you to download VMDK because i was unable to boot from VDI (i'm using Virtualbox).

If you're looking for personal opinion on what to install luffy... i use Virtualbox because i find Vmware kinda bloated... but i also respect Vmware so it's hard to say.

That being said, I believe I'd rather shoot myself then give more data to Google. (Though sadly, I'm using a gmail account now)

Yes, you can use any Google username/password to login.

Google Chrome can be used on windows right? Im not interested i do not fancy Chrome im a FF person.

Not sure if i understand... What is available here is Chrome-OS VMDK and VDI images, you can use them either with VMware Player, Server, Workstation, Fusion, Virtualbox or equivalent on Windows, Linux or Mac.