Dec 29
New Year’s Chrome OS image release
Happy New Year to all of you! In order to celebrate the year 2010 contemporary I compiled a new Chrome OS release from the repository today. It works fine for USB drives. Unfortunately, on some machines, I’m experiencing problems running it in VirtualBox after conversion. Please try it yourself. The download size could be decreased to 175 MB. You can find the download link here: Chrome OS image file download.
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December 29th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Hey , you didn’t mentioned if it supports more wifi cards , and what is new about this version ?
December 29th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
You can see all changes made to the repository at http://src.chromium.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=chromiumos.git;a=log .
December 29th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
doesnot work for me after i converted the image to vdi for virtual box
January 3rd, 2010 at 12:42 pm
Unfortunately it doesn’t work for me either with virtualbox. Will try however, using the flash method.
January 3rd, 2010 at 5:19 pm
Well, it seems, that it doesn’t work out for quite a few people. The USB version, however, works fine. I have no clue why it doesn’t work in VirtualBox after conversion. Will try to convert and rund in VMWare Player tomorrow. Check back here for updates.
January 5th, 2010 at 9:03 am
This release doesn’t work in VMWare Player either. I’m building new versions every week and keep you all informed.
January 6th, 2010 at 10:51 am
Thank you.
January 16th, 2010 at 9:33 am
The issue w/ running from virtualbox seems to be the lacking of a suitable vboxvideo_drv.so and possible vboxmouse_drv.so.. unfortunately since chromeos hides all console output, it isn’t so straightforward to figure that out
If you have a working linux virtual machine, you can add the chromeos vdi as a secondary disk, and then mount /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb3 (assuming your chromeos vdi is /dev/sdb) and poke around.. in particular /var/log/ from the first partition is useful to figure out what was going on.
The way I managed to repair the chromeos vdi:
1) mount /dev/sdb3 (3rd partition in chromeos vdi) from working linux vm
# sudo mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt
2) mount vbox guest additions iso
3) extract files from vbox guest additions installer
# cd /tmp
# /media/cdrom0/VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run –noexec –keep
# cd install
# tar xjf VBoxGuestAdditions.tar.bz2
# sudo cp lib/VBoxGuestAdditions/vboxvideo_drv_16.so /mnt/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vboxvideo_drv.so
# sudo cp lib/VBoxGuestAdditions/vboxmouse_drv_16.so /mnt/usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/vboxmouse_drv.so
# sync; sudo umount /mnt
now shutdown your linux vm, and startup your chromeos vm
January 16th, 2010 at 11:51 am
Hey Rob!
Thanks a lot for your help. I’ll surely include your patch into the next release!
February 2nd, 2010 at 3:19 pm
/me waits patiently for next release. :p
February 3rd, 2010 at 4:27 am
In the meantime, I already built it from scratch 20 times. But none of the releases worked. I am experiencing different errors from build to build and hence the Chromium OS project hasn’t got a buildbot or a lkgr (last known good release) feature it’s trial and error. Nevertheless, I’m still trying…
March 7th, 2010 at 10:12 am
Will there be another new ChromeOS release like the new year release soon ??