With Google's new Chromebooks out at just $249, many people who once wrote them off as too expensive for their limited functionality are giving them a ...How To Run Chrome OS in VirtualBox and Try Out Chrome OS Before ...
With Google’s new Chromebooks out at just $249, many people who once wrote them off as too expensive for their limited functionality are giving them a second look. But will you really find Chrome OS useful? You can easily run Chrome OS in a VirtualBox virtual machine, although you’ll need to tweak a few settings before it will run properly. Once you have, you can run Chrome OS in a window on your computer. Getting the Virtual Machine To run the virtual machine, you’ll first need to download and install Once you have, visit Hexxeh’s Chromium OS Vanilla website and download the VirtualBox image for the latest version of Chromium OS. We’re downloading this from an unofficial website because Google doesn’t provide any official binaries for Chrome OS. Chromium OS is a build of the open-sou...
