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Google Chrome OS available as free VMWare download

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Re: Google Chrome OS available as free VMWare download

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Post by revorad »

sant0sk1 wrote: post #6
bhousel wrote: post #4

Here's instructions and links to get the image. They have released images for VMWare and VirtualBox too. Download requires a gdgt login. http://discuss.gdgt.com/google/chrome-os/general/Download-Ch...

> Download requires a gdgt login. Guh. Who's gonna take one for the team and free those downloads from captivity?

Here's the VirtualBox image: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/136177/chrome-os-0.4.22.8-gdgt.vdi.z...

and here's the VMWare one: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/136177/chrome-os-0.4.22.8-gdgt.vmdk....

EDIT: Looks like you lot broke my dropbox public folder:

"Hi Hrishi,

This email is an automated notification from Dropbox that your Public links have been temporarily suspended on account of generating excessive traffic. Your Dropbox will continue to function completely normally with the exception of Public links.

If you have any questions, feel free to drop us a line at support@dropbox.com.

- The Dropbox Team"

I'm taking down the files now. If anyone from dropbox is reading can you please reactivate my public links? Thanks.

Re: Google Chrome OS available as free VMWare download

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Post by stevejohnson »

Shana wrote: post #10
bhousel wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't you know what VMWare is?

older computers, new at this, and would rather learn all this stuff the hard way. I do know what vmware is, I don't want to screw up what I have

How could running Chrome OS in a VM "screw up" anything you have?

Re: Google Chrome OS available as free VMWare download

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Post by brown9-2 »

revorad wrote: post #12
sant0sk1 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Download requires a gdgt login. Guh. Who's gonna take one for the team and free those downloads from captivity?

Here's the VirtualBox image: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/136177/chrome-os-0.4.22.8-gdgt.vdi.z... and here's the VMWare one: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/136177/chrome-os-0.4.22.8-gdgt.vmdk.... EDIT: Looks like you lot broke my dropbox public folder: "Hi Hrishi, This email is an automated notification from Dropbox that your Public links have been temporarily suspended on account of generating excessive traffic. Your Dropbox wi…

The VirtualBox image just hangs at a black screen for me (using Virtual Box 3.0.4) - anyone else have this problem?

Re: Google Chrome OS available as free VMWare download

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Post by Nekojoe »

stevejohnson wrote: post #13
Shana wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

older computers, new at this, and would rather learn all this stuff the hard way. I do know what vmware is, I don't want to screw up what I have

How could running Chrome OS in a VM "screw up" anything you have?

I use virtual machines and am happy with them. However to be fair to the grandparent poster there have been issues with USB devices and VMWare.

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Vista64bitBlueScreensWithINTER...

Re: Google Chrome OS available as free VMWare download

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Post by revorad »

brown9-2 wrote: post #14
revorad wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's the VirtualBox image: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/136177/chrome-os-0.4.22.8-gdgt.vdi.z... and here's the VMWare one: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/136177/chrome-os-0.4.22.8-gdgt.vmdk.... EDIT: Looks like you lot broke my dropbox public folder: "Hi Hrishi, This email is an automated notification from Dropbox that your Public links have been temporarily suspended on account of generating excessive traffic. Your Dropbox wi…

The VirtualBox image just hangs at a black screen for me (using Virtual Box 3.0.4) - anyone else have this problem?

Yes me too actually. The techcrunch article said it could take a few minutes, but I've been waiting for a while now. I don't have Vmware, so I guess I'll build from source tonight.

Re: Google Chrome OS available as free VMWare download

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Post by chunkyslink »

brown9-2 wrote: post #14
revorad wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's the VirtualBox image: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/136177/chrome-os-0.4.22.8-gdgt.vdi.z... and here's the VMWare one: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/136177/chrome-os-0.4.22.8-gdgt.vmdk.... EDIT: Looks like you lot broke my dropbox public folder: "Hi Hrishi, This email is an automated notification from Dropbox that your Public links have been temporarily suspended on account of generating excessive traffic. Your Dropbox wi…

The VirtualBox image just hangs at a black screen for me (using Virtual Box 3.0.4) - anyone else have this problem?

Yea same for me. Nothing after 20 mins

Virtual Box 3, Osx 10.5

Re: Google Chrome OS available as free VMWare download

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Post by elblanco »

Shana wrote: post #10
bhousel wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't you know what VMWare is?

older computers, new at this, and would rather learn all this stuff the hard way. I do know what vmware is, I don't want to screw up what I have

That's the point of VMWare, so you can virtualize another system inside of your primary one, in effect "sandboxing" the guest OS so you don't screw anything up.

Re: Google Chrome OS available as free VMWare download

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Post by bhousel »

jrnkntl wrote: post #8

I have the same problem as some commenters on this link point out: http://discuss.gdgt.com/google/chrome-os/general/Download-Ch... Doesn't work for me on VirtualBox on OSX. I cannot login to the OS, saying there's no internet access/no offline login available.

I was getting that too. I rebooted, then left it at the login screen for about 20 minutes, then came back and now it's working.
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