Launch Chromium OS in Virtual Box

A couple of days ago, Google showed us that Chromium OS is nothing more than (Ubuntu-) Linux with its window manager, which runs only a browser. I personally thought this idea was innovative, although critics would start shouting that this was supposedly a simple “thin” client, patients with paranoia would talk about 1984 and they would all be partially right. I think that many narrow-minded users, for whom the computer itself is something mysterious and super-complex, and the word "browser" is nothing more than a synonym for the word "Internet", such a system will greatly simplify life. But we will not go into philosophical questions. I didn’t really like to wait almost a year until Chromium OS is completely recycled, because at this stage the product is still very damp. I wanted to try the system live - the source code is fully accessible . Fortunately on techcrunch'e slipped an article on how to install Chromium OS in Virtual Box , as well as on the habr there are links to virtual images . Nevertheless, I spent a small experiment, and what I want to share with you.

0) What we need

Virtual box
Download the image from Chrome OS from here (torrent) and unpack it.
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1) Create a virtual machine

Launch VirtualBox, New, set the name "Chrome OS" type of Linux operating system, Ubuntu version


We set the size of the operating memory, in the screenshot 512MB, later it turned out to be small. Better to give 1024.





We import the downloaded and unpacked image: Use existing disk, go to the daddy, Add, select the chrome-image.


Is done

2) We start

log in with your gmail account


You can already use standard applications


Docks


Calculator started, but apparently, something did not work out


Flash works without problems


picas shows pictures


the calendar,


presentation slides


Well, everyone's favorite Habr. Nothing special, ordinary Chrome :)


Almost everything interesting is controlled by magic keys / combinations. F12 shows all open windows


F8 shows all possible combinations.


One of the questions that arises when looking at Chrome: how will the euro commission react to the preinstalled Chrome browser? Is it possible to put alternatives?
about: memory shows only UI-Processes


Ctrl + Alt + T launches terminal, which opens in full screen mode.
You can see that in Chrome OS lives under the browser. And many of them are loved there (and by me, too) by debian / ubuntu: as it turned out, Google cooperates with Canonical and several developers of Ubunt also deal with Chrome.

That's all. I had a virtual machine “frozen” several times in a row, but all the same, I liked the idea already at this stage. Interestingly, this will eventually work out. After all, even the merger of Android and Chrome as it may well become a reality.
Enjoy your experiments!

UPD updated torrent file link