Google Chrome OS available as free VMWare download • Hacker News Board

Re: Google Chrome OS available as free VMWare download

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Post by dutchy » Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 7:15 PM UTC

jonursenbach wrote: post #29

brown9-2 wrote: post #14

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

Reboot your machine, seems to fix the problem. (I'm the one who built these gdgt images.)

what virtualbox settings did you use? The vdi seems to do nothing.

Re: Google Chrome OS available as free VMWare download

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Post by cookiecaper » Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 7:30 PM UTC

brown9-2 wrote: post #14

revorad wrote: post #12

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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?

Yep, same here on Linux x64 2.6.31 and VirtualBox 3.0.12.

Re: Google Chrome OS available as free VMWare download

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Post by jrockway » Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 7:30 PM UTC

truebosko wrote: post #11

TechCrunch is also linking to a virtualbox image of the Chrome OS: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5170843/chromeos-image-999.9...

VirtualBox can read (and write to) VMWare images, FWIW.

Re: Google Chrome OS available as free VMWare download

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Post by cookiecaper » Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 7:31 PM UTC

jonursenbach wrote: post #29

brown9-2 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Reboot your machine, seems to fix the problem. (I'm the one who built these gdgt images.)

Reboot the virtual machine? That hasn't been working for me so far. Disabling USB doesn't do anything else either. Perhaps you can post the VirtualBox XML file that describes the settings used for this VM, or tell us your platform and versions?

Re: Google Chrome OS available as free VMWare download

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Post by jonursenbach » Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 7:53 PM UTC

dutchy wrote: post #31

jonursenbach wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reboot your machine, seems to fix the problem. (I'm the one who built these gdgt images.)

what virtualbox settings did you use? The vdi seems to do nothing.

http://i.imgur.com/Fwd4v.png

Re: Google Chrome OS available as free VMWare download

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Post by jonursenbach » Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 7:54 PM UTC

cookiecaper wrote: post #34

jonursenbach wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reboot your machine, seems to fix the problem. (I'm the one who built these gdgt images.)

Reboot the virtual machine? That hasn't been working for me so far. Disabling USB doesn't do anything else either. Perhaps you can post the VirtualBox XML file that describes the settings used for this VM, or tell us your platform and versions?

No reboot your actual machine. Usually fixes the black screen issues.

Re: Google Chrome OS available as free VMWare download

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Post by marltod » Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 8:20 PM UTC

There has to be a way to get a command prompt. It might be commented out in this build, has anyone looked through the source?

http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os

Re: Google Chrome OS available as free VMWare download

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Post by petercooper » Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 9:13 PM UTC

Beware.. the login box only allows 29 characters as a username and the throw away account I created is longer than that! (No thanks to the "googlemail.com" requirement in the UK..) So make sure your full Google username is shorter than that.

Re: Google Chrome OS available as free VMWare download

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Post by tsandall » Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 11:04 PM UTC

marltod wrote: post #37

There has to be a way to get a command prompt. It might be commented out in this build, has anyone looked through the source? http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os

There doesn't appear to be any sort of "usage" notes yet, however http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/how-tos-and-troubleshoot... has a list of keyboard shortcuts. CTRL-ALT-T should give you a shell.

Re: Google Chrome OS available as free VMWare download

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Post by joubert » Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 11:09 PM UTC

revorad wrote: post #12

sant0sk1 wrote: post #6

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> 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…

Do the DropBox guys define what "excessive" is?