If you get an error that says “network not connected and offline login fail” when you try to log in, be sure that the virtual network adapter is set to Intel Pro/1000 MT Desktop (82540EM). You should be running VirtualBox 3.0.12, and when you import the virtual appliance everything should be configured properly. If you use this machine for anything serious (although I doubt you would), be sure to change the password. You can run “sudo su” (no quotes) to log in as root, and I’ve set the password to “password” (no quotes). If you hit Ctrl+Alt+T when you first log in, you’ll get a shell prompt. I guess you could say I more or less took “script-like notes” as I was building Chromium OS. You may be able to run it as a script, although I haven’t confirmed that it will work. I also included a txt file that more or less has the commands I used to build it. The virtual appliance will be imported into VirtualBox and you should be good to go. Navigate to the chromiumos.ovf file and select it. To use it, just start up VirtualBox, click File and then Import. Please continue to seed, as I’m sure there will be many people out there wanting to try it out. I built a torrent for it, so feel free to download it here:ĭownload the Chromium OS VirtualBox Appliance Torrent I also managed to put together a VirtualBox virtual appliance that is all ready to go. It took some time, but I did manage to do this on my 64-bit Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) machine. The Chromium OS source code is available for download (Chromium OS is the open-source version of Google Chrome OS), and you can compile and build it.

The Chromium Blog has some great videos that provide some additional information about Chrome OS as well. Google had an event at their headquarters, and indeed provided new details and a demo of the Chrome OS. They stated that the info came from a reliable source, and indeed that source was reliable. Last week, Techcrunch reported rumors of the release of the Google Chrome OS.

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