10 Minute Guide to Chromium OS Installation

A recent hype in the technology media is "Google Chrome OS", a new Internet based operating system by Google for Netbooks. This is a significant ingredient to Google's push for cloud computing. The search giant has already partnered with several major Netbook vendors for system equipped with this OS as early as last quarter of 2010.

I have recently tried the OS and wanted to share my experience with the readers. This post will cover a 10-minute guide for the installation of the OS and get it running in your Windows or Linux OS. Let's start with our journey-

Step 1: You need a virtual machine to run Chrome OS. For Windows systems, download free VMware player or Virtual Box. I prefer Virtual Box from Sun because it doesn't need registration and is very simple to use. The rest of the post assumes that you have also preferred virtual box over VMware Player.

For Linux, download Virtual Box from http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads. In my Kubuntu system, as always, I needed only the apt-get command:

$: sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose-qt
It comes under KDE Menu: Applications -> Utilities -> PC Virtualization Solutions

3 min.

Step 2: Download Chrome OS image from pirates bay torrent. If you have no torrent client installed in your system, download image from gdgt.

4 min.

Add Hard disk to Virutal Box:

1. Start the virtual box. Click New to add new virtual machine.
2. Give it a name. Select the OS type as Linux and version as Ubuntu.
3. Leave other options as default. 

Now start your Chrome OS-

Login with your google account-

3 min.

Enjoy your chrome OS!!!