Download Chrome OS Ready To Use Nightly Builds (For VirtualBox, VMware And USB Drive)

Hexxeh has made vanilla Chrome OS VirtualBox, VMware and USB drive images available for download so you can easily try out the latest Chrome OS nightly builds without having to compile it yourself.

In my test, using Chrome OS in VirtualBox was painfully slow because you can't enable graphical acceleration so it's best to use the USB images. But if you must run it in VirtualBox (if for instance you can't boot of an USB), it would be ideal to assign it around 2 GB of RAM. If you think that's too much for a OS-Browser, you'd be surprised how much RAM Chrome (the browser) uses for some people.

To use the Chrome OS .vdi in VirtualBox, download it from HERE, extract it, then in VirtualBox click on "New", enter a name and under "Operating system" select "Linux" and for "Version" enter "Ubuntu":

On the "Virtual Hard Disk" step, select "Use existing hard disk" and browse for the ChromeOS .vdi file:

You're now ready to run Chrome OS in VirtualBox.


Download vanilla Chrome OS VirtualBox, VMware and usb image nightlies.

Thanks to Chrome Story for the heads up!

Acer And Samsung To Launch Chrome OS Notebooks In Mid 2011

Google held a conference today in which they've demoed Chrome OS which is said to be extremely speedy, have ultra-fast setup, built-in Verizon connectivity, multiple users support, easy security and application updates as well as Citrix Receiver applications (Citrix Receiver allows businesses to deploy desktop applications, such as Microsoft Excel).

But that's not all! Google also announced that Acer and Samsung will launch Chrome OS netbooks in mid 2011, with other manufacturers to closely follow. Further more, Google launched the Chrome OS Pilot Program in which a Chrome OS netbook ("CR-48") will be used for testing. A limited number of these CR-48 netbooks are available right away - you can apply for one already by either submitting a video on YouTube or by filling out THIS form.

Info thanks to Lifehacker. For a lot more info on Google's announcement today on Chrome OS, see the post on Lifehacker.