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I was able to get past the network issues in VMWARE by using Virtual Machine > Restart

In Virtualbox choose an Intel adaptor to get networking working.

Does anyone know the local user password for sudo?

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

Running on MAC Leopard, VMWare Fusion. Had a few hiccups but am running it fine fine now. My only issue is I chose full screen from the Chromium options (already running full screen mode in VM) and can't figure out how to return... don't have any address bar or menu items on top!

BTW, you can change network to Bridged on the fly, as well as change the operationg system environment.

Downloaded VM image and opened in VMware fusion 3 on OsX fine.
For some reason it refuses to connect to my GMail... Says the certificate for https has been revoked.
Everything else is fine.

I finally got past the Network connection failed screen, after starting/restarting VMWare and trying to log in multiple times. Getting the same lagginess as everyone else, same https errpr (though GMail and Calendar work), and without the Apps/Short Links it's pretty useless, but obviously it's pre-alpha, so that's to be expected.

The potential is there and it'll be exciting to see where it leads to. I think the idea is solid, but there are a couple concerns: One is that without a decent Internet connection, your computer is effectively useless. You won't be able to log in, or if you can, you don't be able to do anything, since nothing is stored on your computer. You will only be able to use your computer when there's a decent connection, and most people aren't going to pay for wireless broadband (though I can always tether to my Android phone). The other concern is that there simply aren't enough powerful web apps currently, and there won't be for a while. There's not a decent web coding environment, and there's not a decent graphics editor, so a lot of people won't be able to do their jobs (which is what I would get a Chrome netbook for, and I'm sure other people would too). Google is obviously looking to the future--they've been pushing this "the future is in the web" thing for a while--but we're just not there yet, and won't be for a few more years, where we can have free web access from literally anywhere, and web apps are powerful enough (and secure enough) to replace the programs we use every day. 90% of our days is on the web, yeah, but we still need to do that other 10%.

Is it even possible to run Chrome OS on a HDD, it shouldn't according to Google, can it be done?

I just installed VMWare and made Chromium a virtual machine. When I try to log in, it says it's still offline and that network login has failed.

Wow this is way more helpful than anything on this site...

http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/20/how-to-run-chrome-os-
as-a-virtual-machine/

I managed to login with the virtualbox image after a simple reboot of the host machine and change the network to bridged....yes simple as that. If only we had a google.com login for the apps!

P.S. it took a few minutes for time to sync to get rid of that https error.

I'v found parallels install later by someone here, it worked for me too:

> I have it running in Parallels 4. In the settings for the VM I set the OS type to "Linux", OS version to "Other Linux", and under Hardware > Hard Disk 1 set the Image File to the HDD file I converted with Parallels Transporter.

I'm not convinced this is the real deal. Downloaded the VMware image, booted it up successfully and the network worked for me.

But:

1.) The far left pinnable tab did nothing, and requires a Google rather than Gmail login (the password for which I've since changed)
2.) The Chromium menus look Windows based, not Linux.

Maybe it's just way behind the demoed version, as Engadget says, but I'm going to build it for myself instead.

I'm going nuts, I tried everything in virtual box.

"Network not connected and offline loggin failed"

I have vmware workstation 6.5.3 - how can I recreate the vmx file? - it will not load and vmplayer is also looking for the vmx file - running on win7 64bit

just tryed it, everything works ok :)

just a question, why somewhere it's called "Chrome OS" and somewhere "Chromium OS"?

I got it working fine, using the .vmdk with VirtualBox under a Debian/Gnome host. It's got a small screen (which I can't seem to enlarge), and seems very laggy.

It's also very odd not having a 'desktop'! That would take some getting used to!

I guess I wasn't really clear on the concept; it's just the Chrome browser running without the need for WIndows or OS X or Linux... (Duh, kinda like the name implies: "Chrome OS"...)