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767 replies / Originally posted by dave / Latest reply from joelewer / Topic is open
Hi I want to try chrome OS..
I tried downloading the vmware player from their website and its asking me to make an account and i can't do that ( i am 16years old)
i then tgoogled vmware and downloaded some older version of vmware player and it didnt have any option to create a virtual machine and also it didn't support the chrome OS file extension ( i downloaded the OS for vmware player and extracted it as it was compressed)
can anyone help me?where can i get vmware player that supports chrome without registering for the account?is it free?
thanks in advance!
I tried downloading the vmware player from their website and its asking me to make an account and i can't do that ( i am 16years old)
i then tgoogled vmware and downloaded some older version of vmware player and it didnt have any option to create a virtual machine and also it didn't support the chrome OS file extension ( i downloaded the OS for vmware player and extracted it as it was compressed)
can anyone help me?where can i get vmware player that supports chrome without registering for the account?is it free?
thanks in advance!
Posted 2 months ago
Since this download is not a complete VMWare machine you'll need VMWare Workstation to create your Chrome OS machine. (Search and thou shall find ...)
On the other hand, Chrome OS is right now not much more than a bootable Chrome browser.
So if you haven't used Chrome before, download it from Google and you'll get almost the same thing.
On the other hand, Chrome OS is right now not much more than a bootable Chrome browser.
So if you haven't used Chrome before, download it from Google and you'll get almost the same thing.
Posted 2 months ago
I second that motion! What's the point right now, other than to say, "Yup! It's workin!"
Posted 2 months ago
Is there any possible way to get this working with NAT instead of bridged networking in VMWare? I'm only allowed to run VMs at work in NAT mode and to top it off the web is behind a proxy for which I would have to enter a username/password.
Posted 2 months ago
NAT worked fine for me right out of the box.
That's the way I run my other VMs.
I'm running VMWare 6.5.3 on Vista Ultimate SP2.
That's the way I run my other VMs.
I'm running VMWare 6.5.3 on Vista Ultimate SP2.
Posted 2 months ago
Yes but I imagine my problem isn't NAT but the proxy. There's no way to enter proxy settings into ChromeOS so that it can actually log in?
Posted 2 months ago
You should be working.... not playing with a useless OS in another OS
Posted 2 months ago
What would be the user name and password to login into Chrome OS? It says @google.com, is it means that only google employee can login. How to create the account with @google.com? Every thing else is working but stuck at the first login screen.
Any help would be great.
Any help would be great.
Posted 2 months ago
enter gmail user name and pass
Posted 2 months ago
Here is the thing. In the begining when OS starts, it ask for a username and password, which i know we have to use gmail username and password and is working for me too. May be i did not ask the right question. When you are logged in, you can see couple of tabs on the top. The first most tab says "Welcome to Google.com" and ask for a username and password again (Not sure if its me only).
I was wondering if any one know what username and password is required there to login.
Thanks a bunch.
I was wondering if any one know what username and password is required there to login.
Thanks a bunch.
Posted 2 months ago
I think pretty much everyone is stuck at this point.
It looks like those "short links" would link to "Panels" that are in the cloud somewhere, *if* we could get logged in. Remember during the demo there was a little music panel and a chat panel. My guess is those icons were just bound to links. But w/o being able to log in, who knows for sure?
It looks like those "short links" would link to "Panels" that are in the cloud somewhere, *if* we could get logged in. Remember during the demo there was a little music panel and a chat panel. My guess is those icons were just bound to links. But w/o being able to log in, who knows for sure?
Posted 2 months ago
The chat panel is available, to use it go into your gmail and chat with someone and when choose another tab you will notice that the chat panel will stay.
Posted 2 months ago
Indeed, it's asking for a @google.com account, which is seemingly different to the gmail account we all used to sign in.
Dude where's my @google.com?
I think we need this to work before the OS becomes useful.
Dude where's my @google.com?
I think we need this to work before the OS becomes useful.
Posted 2 months ago
I also notice that in the instructions it has been mentioned :
2.) The username and password to login to Chrome OS / Chromium OS is your google account!
What is the username and password in this? May be the author can shed some more light on this :-)
2.) The username and password to login to Chrome OS / Chromium OS is your google account!
What is the username and password in this? May be the author can shed some more light on this :-)
Posted 2 months ago
Use your Gmail account.
Posted 2 months ago
It doesn't work. It says wrong username or password.
Posted 2 months ago
My connection is working fine, but it simply couldn't connect to the server ... :S
I've tried VMware and VirtualBox ...
Maybe the login servers are fucked up somehow ?
I've tried VMware and VirtualBox ...
Maybe the login servers are fucked up somehow ?
Posted 2 months ago
HOWTO: fix the USB image in Linux by adding missing scripts (tested in Ubuntu)
There are three small text files that are missing from the USB zip which fails if you try to run ./image_to_usb.sh
1) Download this file called common.sh and put it in the same folder as image_to_usb.sh
http://src.chromium.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=chromiumos.
git;a=blob_plain;f=src/scripts/common.sh;hb=HEAD
2) make a folder in your home directory to put the next file in:
mkdir -p ~/src/third_party/shflags/files/src/
This will create a folder called src/ in your home dir and folder called third_party/ inside that etc.
Now put this second file called shflags inside ~/src/third_party/shflags/files/src/
http://shflags.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/source/1.0/src/s
hflags
3) Make another folder inside ~/src/ called scripts
mkdir ~/src/scripts
Now download this last textfile, name it file_copy.py and put it in the scripts folder.
You will have to make this executable by right-clicking and choosing properties or doing
chmod +x file_copy.py
Now ./image_to_usb.sh should work fine, for god sake double check the /dev/DEVNAME or you will overwrite your hard drive!
It takes a few mins on a slow usb stick.
There are three small text files that are missing from the USB zip which fails if you try to run ./image_to_usb.sh
1) Download this file called common.sh and put it in the same folder as image_to_usb.sh
http://src.chromium.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=chromiumos.
git;a=blob_plain;f=src/scripts/common.sh;hb=HEAD
2) make a folder in your home directory to put the next file in:
mkdir -p ~/src/third_party/shflags/files/src/
This will create a folder called src/ in your home dir and folder called third_party/ inside that etc.
Now put this second file called shflags inside ~/src/third_party/shflags/files/src/
http://shflags.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/source/1.0/src/s
hflags
3) Make another folder inside ~/src/ called scripts
mkdir ~/src/scripts
Now download this last textfile, name it file_copy.py and put it in the scripts folder.
You will have to make this executable by right-clicking and choosing properties or doing
chmod +x file_copy.py
Now ./image_to_usb.sh should work fine, for god sake double check the /dev/DEVNAME or you will overwrite your hard drive!
It takes a few mins on a slow usb stick.
Posted 2 months ago
Now download this last textfile? witch text file?
cant wait to try it out in my eee900
cant wait to try it out in my eee900
Posted 2 months ago
SORRY HERE IS TEXT FILE NO 3
http://src.chromium.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=chromiumos.
git;a=blob_plain;f=src/scripts/file_copy.py;hb=HEAD
rename to: file_copy.py
Sorry I'm a numpty can't edit my above post now
http://src.chromium.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=chromiumos.
git;a=blob_plain;f=src/scripts/file_copy.py;hb=HEAD
rename to: file_copy.py
Sorry I'm a numpty can't edit my above post now
Posted 2 months ago
I tried it, but i am still having problems, could you help me? It would be nice if this was already done and a new download would be presented to me. However a step by step walkthrough, or even better a videowalkthrough, would be very nice. Could you do that?
Posted 2 months ago
Ok I have zipped up steps 2 & 3 into a zip file to try and make it easier for you.
Download this file and extract it to your home folder, it will make a folder called src which has the two files already in the right place.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/258262/src.tar.gz
(In Ubuntu you can right-click and choose extract here)
Now download this file called common.sh and put it in the same folder as image_to_usb.sh
http://src.chromium.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=chromiumos.
git;a=blob_plain;f=src/scripts/common.sh;hb=HEAD
Download this file and extract it to your home folder, it will make a folder called src which has the two files already in the right place.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/258262/src.tar.gz
(In Ubuntu you can right-click and choose extract here)
Now download this file called common.sh and put it in the same folder as image_to_usb.sh
http://src.chromium.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=chromiumos.
git;a=blob_plain;f=src/scripts/common.sh;hb=HEAD
Posted 2 months ago
I was able to get past the network issues in VMWARE by using Virtual Machine > Restart
Posted 2 months ago
Do you mean "Reset"?
Posted 2 months ago
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I had the same but not thru proxy but wlan0.
Got round the problem by logging in as chronos
Leave the password blank, this will let you into the browser, then work out your proxy settings, for my case I dun have to do anything, it did indeed takes a few seconds to "Resolve hosts..." after I typed in my gmail address for the default gmail account.
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