Go to the Hexxeh’s Chromium OS page, and download the VirtualBox image from the latest build listed on the page. Now, let’s see how to set it up in VirtualBox, since VMware may not be always everyone’s choice. Follow the wizard, and you will have a working Chrome OS ready to serve you in a moment. Optionally, you can change the setting to increase memory or the Process core if you want to have a better performance.Ī few moments later, the initial setup wizard pops up, w/ Ethernet as one of the network option available. Now, double-click the vmx file to open it in VMware Player or Workstation. Notepad++ in my case.Īnd add a line ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000" at the end of the file. Right-click the vmx file and open with Notepad, or your favorite text editor, i.e. Once you have it downloaded, extract the content from the zip file to a convenient place, such as your VM folder or just inside your download folder. The download file is about 300MB which consists of 2 VMware virtual machine files. Click the VMware download icon on the latest Build listed on the page. Setting up Chrome OS on VMware Player or Workstationįirst of all, head over to Built by Hexxeh to download the latest Chromium OS Vanilla build. Now let’s see how you can set up and test out the Chrome OS in a virtualization environment if you don’t have a spare machine to play with.
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