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Download Chrome OS VMWare image
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Topic: Download Chrome OS VMWare image

781 replies / Originally posted by dave / Latest reply from mannyalbite / Topic is open

By hast

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It's worth noting that you get a US keyboard by default. So if you're like me and run a Swedish keyboard and has a login using non-alphanumeric keys you'll have to look up the corresponding keys first.

Posted 3 months ago

By thuara

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Hi, this image give error. Anyone tried this?

Posted 3 months ago

By powermite

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It looks like if you choose "Linux" and "Linux 2.6" for your operating system in VirtualBox it will work better.

Posted 3 months ago

By Brandongasper

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use Chronos as your username

Posted 3 months ago

By powermite

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I have created a guide to boot Chrome OS (Chromium OS) from a USB drive here:

Chrome Techa: Install Chrome OS to USB (http://bit.ly/4EBEMo)

(I posted this already but it's on the last page of comments, not sure if anyone will see it there...)

Posted 3 months ago

By mariswaran

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Hi Dave,

Thank You for the detailed instructions.

I was successful in launching Chromium vmdk in virtualbox.

Thank You

Posted 3 months ago

By polmak

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vbox black screen
VM cant load without the vmx

oh well....

Posted 3 months ago

By jonursenbach

gdgt admin

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If you just installed VirtualBox or VMWare, restart your computer; seems to fix that issue.

Posted 3 months ago

By mafirst

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I have installed Chrome OS on VM. How do you get the VMTools working? What OS option do you chose when you installing this OS?

Posted 3 months ago

By jonursenbach

gdgt admin

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VMTools will not work with Chrome OS as far as I know. The OS option you choose is Linux and Other Linux Kernel 2.6.

Posted 3 months ago

By nicerobot

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Here's what i did:

- Copied VMwareTools-7.9.7-196839.tar.gz from my Ubuntu VM by using its "Install VMWare Tools" menu.
- Make the file available on your network
- In ChromeOS's terminal (ctrl-alt-t) i used wget to pull the file to /home/chronos, then:
$ tar zxf VMwareTools-7.9.7-196839.tar.gz
$ cd vmware-tools-distrib
$ sudo mount -o remount,rw /
$ sudo perl $(pwd)/vmware-install.pl

I took the default for everything until it began asking for cc/gcc. Since there's no gcc, it seems most of the features of vmware-tools can't be built for this kernel. But hey, it's installed now :)

Posted 3 months ago

By nicerobot

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FYI, VMwareTools-7.9.7-196839.tar.gz is for the most current VMware Fusion 2.x. VMware Fusion 3.x currently uses VMwareTools-8.2.3-204229.tar.gz

Posted 3 months ago

By dj415

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I finally was able to fix the network problem, but now after I enter my log in information, it loads and then gives me error "failed to execute log in command". Any idea how to fix this? I am running windows 7 32-bit, and using the vmdk on VirtualBox.

Posted 3 months ago

By ap35858

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Dave, for VirtualBox, you need to export the VM as an appliance. That creates the .ovf file with the XML and everything you need to be able to import the appliance elsewhere. It doesn't really work to just pass around the .vdi file since that is just the disk image, not all the other stuff you need.

Posted 3 months ago

By youngstar508

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It works for me but how do i get to the desktop if there is one

Posted 3 months ago

By dwradcliffe

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There is no desktop! By design...

Posted 3 months ago

By Cbjake

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OK so after messing around with this dl for a bit and getting the "network not connected error" I tried and override on our proxy here at work... and now think there is something very funny about this release. Where is it trying to do all the logging into? I know there is nothing google or chrome related blocked here. It looks like it sure uses google to log in but why would it take a full override to make it work.

Posted 3 months ago

By DJBender

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Has anyone gotten the usb install to work? The script "image_to_usb.sh" isn't working for me. I don't know what input file to point it to. =(

Posted 3 months ago

By admin101

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This thing is a time waster. Will have to wait to completion or a better Beta or something, Everything looks like a web browser, no desktop as far as I have seen.

Posted 3 months ago

By dwradcliffe

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There is no desktop! (By design)

Posted 3 months ago

By shurcooL

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But I'm not seeing any of that stuff they've been showing in the videos...

Like the overlay "panels" and such.

Posted 3 months ago

By extofer

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are there any update regarding the Live (bootable) configuration. I was successful getting it to run on VirtualBox but require some guidance to get it done on the USB.

Posted 3 months ago

By fauxfreshness

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Can you put this stuff in the main body of your first post, so people can see it without searching through the posts?

So, to put these all in one spot, I use this to change resolution:

xrandr -s 1280x720

This to shut it down and power off the VM (had to fiddle to get this):

sudo /sbin/shutdown -P now

And these commands are all accessible using Ctrl+Alt+T to bring up the terminal. Also, on the gdgt image, the sudo password is "chronos" (same as the login name at the prompt).

Hope this helps. :-)

Posted 3 months ago

By PJSchneider

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Running the gdgt build on VirualBox (Win7 64bit) everything appears to work fine EXCEPT access to the terminal window. Not much fun when all I can get is basically a sluggish chrome browser. Any ideas why CTRL-ALT-T won't work?

Posted 3 months ago

By funkboy

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Thanks!

Posted 3 months ago

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