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The recovery system was real choppy in performance.

While the process says it only takes about 20 minutes, on my end it took around 40. Once the system booted up (which took a good five minutes) all I needed to do was choose "Install Cloudready" from the user menu in Chromium OS. This forced Virtualbox to boot from the boot disk clone. So I did the next best thing I created my boot disk as the primary master, and the empty VDI as the primary slave (which kinda made me feel like I was back in 1993).

Install virtualbox chromebook how to#

I couldn't figure out how to "hack" the boot order of the EFI without getting dumped to the EFI shell (I sure wasn't going to use that!). The unpack and recovery disk process take about 20 minutes, depending on the relative speed of the computer. Unfortunately, there's just not a good way around using a usb drive, as the recovery utility can only "see" flash drives.

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The 64-bit image file comes as a zip and you'll also need to install the Chromebook Recovery Utility (this is the same extension for both macOS and Windows).

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I found that NeverWare's CloudReady software was a possible solution – it's based on the Chromium OS source – and once I filtered through all the license options, I figured out their Home Edition was the best solution for what I needed given it's cost (FREE!) and it's personal license (I don't need this for business, yet).

I also remember that Hexxah used to host Chromium OS builds on his blog, but it appears that he no longer maintains this information, nor does he provide builds. The download size of the repo itself is massive – I gave up around 1.9GB. but after trying to figure out what repo tools I needed, I assumed there must be a better (easier) option, since I really didn't desire to change the code, just experiment with the operating system.

Install virtualbox chromebook code#

I started out looking at the Chromium OS code repo online, as I thought I would build and compile the source myself. While I'm able to use the OpenVPN client on my Mac computer, I wasn't really sure how this work on a Chrome OS based system, although I assumed this is something Google wants their cloud clients to be able to do. Currently, they use the OpenVPN "appliance" as one of the Google Compute Engine instances. Locate the CloudReady OVA file, select it, then click Open.Part of my desire for figuring out how to setup a virtual machine is that one of my clients has a very tightly controlled VPN to access and edit the files on their file system.

In VMWare Workstation Player, click Player > File > Open.

You’ll also need to make sure that virtualization is enabled in your BIOS/UEFI settings. Once installed, downl o ad the VMWare image for CloudReady to your PC.

You’ll first need to download and install VMWare Workstation Player, available for free, non-commercial use on Windows and Linux.

Thanks to Neverware CloudReady, you can to test and try out the Chromebook experience without committing to it. You can do this temporarily to test a new system out, or to run two operating systems at the same time over a longer period. Installing Ubuntu in Virtualbox, for instance, would give you access to Linux on top of Windows or macOS. VMWare allows you to run a virtual machine, with its own isolated virtual hardware and storage, on top of your existing operating system. Rather than do this, we’ll explore how to install CloudReady Chrome OS as a VMWare virtual machine instead. You can install this edition of Chromium OS to your PC or laptop directly, although you should check Neverware’s supported device list to check how well your device is supported before you begin. Thankfully, Neverware CloudReady is a project that takes the Chromium OS base code and adds additional support to make it a more usable operating system on non-Chromebook devices.