Getting it now. I will try to post some information later.

Also grabbing a copy.

Great download speed.

Of course i'm downloading it via Windows.

Let's see. I download an OS bundled in a VM that will allow me to ... browse the web. That's exciting ;-)

I'm using virtualbox and so far am unable to get it to work. Last time I tried using VMware it corrupted my OS and caused me too much trouble to be worth it so I am not going to try that again. I'll post later if I am able to figure out anything.

You all can have at it. For all of you flocking to social networks and cloud computing, giving up control of you personal info, I wish you the best. Personally I think that a safe amount of paranoia is a good thing. I prefer to keep as much control locally as I can.

Downloaded the vmware copy (I have vmware workstation), setup a VM, added the vmdk, booted up instantly (literally 1 second or less), logged in using my gmail account and it opens a chrome looking browser that says mail.google.com's security certificate has been revoked.. oh well

Hmm some one gave you thumbs down...Well I thumbs up to get rid of it because I agree...And think this guy has the right idea.

cna i run vmware on my laptop? i don't know if chrom will run if it isn't on apple or doe s it stay same?

I didn't thumb either of you up nor down, but I figured I'd throw my perspective out there anyway... I think Chrome OS would be fine for netbooks, I might even buy a netbook one of these days, but my desktop takes priority. I too love control, and am hesitant to store sensitive data in the cloud. But I CAN see a use for Chrome OS, it'll just never be my main OS, but rather something I'd put on a device I consider more of a toy. I mean as a developer I can't see myself writing code and compiling on Chrome OS for example. But I can see me using it on a device that I carry everywhere to browse the internet when I'm not near a PC, etc... Anyway, it's worth a look in my opinion.

You can run vmware on pretty much anything I think... I'm running it in linux right now (I mostly use windows OS's, but I happen to be using the linux version of vmware workstation as my host right now). I don't know anything about vmware player, I think it's free though and they should have a windows and linux version (probably works on macs too).

i couldnt get vdi image to work in virtual-box, but vmdk worked fine. it's an interesting concept -- browser as a whole OS. not sure how useful it would be, though. i guess we'll have to wait and see.

btw, has anyone figured out how to "power-off" the OS, aside from closing the VM?

Nope, let me know if you figure it out...

Apparently the virtual box image isn't working. However, if you download the vmware image you can still use it in virtual box (or at least that's what has been said, I'm download it to test right now).

Ill post back once it's done downloading

Download the vmdk image it will work on Virtual box, you get very slow response though. We have to wait for the live-cd version I guess.

Use your Google account to login,If you don’t have one open one here.

Remember the vmdk is compressed; you can use WinZip, WinAce or WinRAR to uncompressed.

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It doesn’t seem to work on VMware Player 3 or VM Workstation 7.

^i have it up an running smoothly on virtual box using the vmdk image.

"Browser as an OS" = Windows since Win98. Remember the kerfuffle MS went through about it?

i dl'd the virtual box version and installed virtual box... im just getting a black screen

itadakimasu : You have to download the VMware image and run it on VirtualBox! is got vmdk extentions.

Wow, your windows system is fast. It took 1 second to provide you a Chrome OS for you to surf the web. awesome.

This is going to be interesting.

No thanks. Sadly, I have more important things I have to attend to like, cleaning cruft from between toes, doing mouseovers on my Win7 desktop lower-right transparency sweet spot, posting inane comments on Tom's Hardware ... stuff like that.

I found an easy way to get this VM loaded on a USB or SD card.
1. You take a tool like WinImage and convert the VMDK to an IMA or IMG file.
2. Then, do a "restore disk image to drive" and write the IMG or IMA file to the USB drive or SD card.
3. I put it on an SD card and booted up my EeePC to Chromium OS.

You will need to connect your system to a copper, DHCP enabled Ethernet that can get out to the internet so you can login with your Google account. Then, once the system remembers your ID, you can login with the network disconnected so you can choose a WiFi network. The network HAS to be open with NO encryption or WEP and the SSID needs to be visible. I haven't figured out how to get it to work with WEP, WPA, or even a hidden SSID so I've had to resort to MAC access lockdown.

Cheers!

-Chris H

I think Google will not make this all Cloud Based, it will quickly evolve into a nice OS with support for Open Office and the likes. The MS fanboys with NSA backdoors built into their proprietary closed and secretly developed OS are already making up anything they can to stick up for the convicted monopolist OS from MS.

All your privacy are belong to us.

Whats the account name and PW to get in?

Never mind use your own Gmail/Google account and it works

Well I got it to load and I got past the sign in screen but it just goes blue and does nothing. If I wanted stuff to crash I would run Windows ME in a virtual Machine

I already have it running in virtualbox. I have to say its pretty slim on features so far. Its basically a browser with links to google apps. I don't have internet everywhere i go so its pretty close to useless since there is no local syncing/backup. Without local storage I find no use for it.