Comments on: Tutorial: How to run Chrome OS in VirtualBox

By: John

John — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:28:45 +0000

I managed to get ChromeOS to run in Windows XP with VirtualBox. The only problem I see is it constantly uses 100% of the CPU when it’s running and the performance is on the choppy side because of it. I could only set it up to use 512MB because I only have 1GB total memory. Not sure if that’s the problem.

By: Steven Pirarbo

Steven Pirarbo — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:39:38 +0000

Seems to be problem with unzipped image (file has suffix .img, not .vdi), which cannot be imported by VirtualBox – has a step been missed in instructions?
How are you supposed to import or create new VM from .img file?

By: Lorin

Lorin — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:12:01 +0000

I wrote on my blog a similar article about running Chrome OS into VirtualBox. You can view it by visiting http://it-nthusiast.blogspot.com/2009/12/google-chrome-os-on-virtualbox.html . Thank you!

By: deu

deu — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:04:16 +0000

My Chromium always hang after 1 start it up for a few minutes and doing some browsing. Anybody know what cause of it?
I ran it in VBox 3.1.2

By: ChromeOS-Blog

ChromeOS-Blog — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:50:46 +0000

You can get the terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T.

By: Julio V>

Julio V> — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:14:18 +0000

Chrome OS is not prompting when the Guest Additions CD is mounted into the OS. In order to fully used the VM capabilities I would need to install Guest Additions. Does anybody had success installing VirtualBox’s Guest Additions?

Since Chrome OS is Linux. How do I bring a terminal up? So I perform the installation by hand.

Any help is appreciated

By: scromie

scromie — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:19:54 +0000

Not sure what I’m doing wrong here – I’ve got VirtualBox running on a Vista machine, with wireless internet access. I got chromium installed as a virtual machine, but can’t login due to “Network not connected and offline login fail”. I also have a WindowsXP virtual machine and the internet patches right through on that one.

I’ve tried using the Bridged Adapter (with both my WiFi adapter and the hardwired one) as well as NAT, and I can’t login no matter what I do. Any suggestions?

By: SugaR

SugaR — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 11:43:34 +0000

Thanks Chrome OS.
Just follow the instructions…it works !

Note:
1. Run internet connection on HOST MACHINE
2. Run VirtualBox
3. You have to create New Virtual Machine
4. … follow the instructions …
5. Welcome to Chrome OS, it looks like Chrome Browser.

By: ChromeOS-Blog

ChromeOS-Blog — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:26:55 +0000

As far as I know, in normal Ubuntu that is only possible by installing the VirtualBox Guest Additions. Maybe someone wants to try it in Chrome OS? How-to here: http://www.ehow.com/how_2343701_screen-resolution-ubuntu-virtual-box.html

By: mike

mike — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:06:08 +0000

anyone figure out how to change the size from 800×600 to say 1024×768? thanks