Getting Chrome OS to run under VirtualBox
You are eager to try out Chrome OS but don’t want to install it on your productive system? Well there is a great VMWare Virtual Appliance compiled by Mark Renouf.
But what if you prefer VirtualBox over VMWare? That was my point exactly so here is what I did to get the image to run under VB:
- Download the Image from here.
- Install Qemu
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bunzip2 chromeos-image-999.999.32309.211410-a1.vmdk.bz2
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qemu-img convert chromeos-image-999.999.32309.211410-a1.vmdk /tmp/chromeos.bin
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VBoxManage convertdd /tmp/chromeos.bin chromeos.vdi
- Open VirtualBox
- In the Virtual Media Manager add the created disk image
- Create a new Virtual Machine and add the disk you just added
- Start the Virtual Machine.
