Now You Can Download Google Chrome OS for Free!

Filed in: Downloads, Google, Open Source — November 21st, 2009

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Google Chrome OS logoIf you can’t wait for the final release of Google Chrome OS (read: Google Chrome OS in plain english), now you can download Chrome OS VMWare/VirtualBox image and run it as virtual machine on top of your current operating system (Windows, Mac, Linux).

The Chrome OS image (300MB compressed / 700MB uncompressed) is compiled from the Chromium OS source code (developer preview 0.4.22.8) by Jon Ursenbach (gdgt.com engineer). You can use it in VMware, VirtualBox, and on a USB drive.

Please note that the Chrome OS is still in its VERY early development. It could be very buggy and very limited functionality.

Download it at your own risk! (although it can’t do much harm by running in virtual machine)

For geeks who installed Chrome OS, How is it? What do you like/dislike about Chrome OS? How’s the performance? Super-FAST?

Google Chromium OS (Chrome OS) login screen
Google Chromium OS (Chrome OS) login screen

Update: I downloaded the Google Chrome OS VMWare image and load it on VMware Fusion (Mac). But I can’t log into the OS because it cannot detect the network connection. A Google Account (Gmail) and Internet connection are required in order to login Google Chrome OS.

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  • Thank you for the link sharing. What risk do i face if i have download it?
  • generally, it is risk free to run in virtual machine.
  • Oh I see. What is the virtual machine ?
  • "A virtual machine (VM) is a software implementation of a machine (i.e. a computer) that executes programs like a physical machine." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine
  • RD
    Having the same problem as you, can't connect.
  • You were using VMware too? Maybe we should try to use VirtualBox instead?
  • Oh I see. Thanks you for your sharing information.
  • why choose chrome .wht is the advantage
  • all you have to change the network to bridged. note for windows users. must enable the vmware virtual ethernet adapter in device manager. than you can log in into the chrome OS.

    The concept of this chrome os is already made by other party, like xPUD , just 50mb of OS. boots like a f1.
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