[OSX-Users] Re: VirtualBox and ChromeOS

[Ben Hodgson]

I love VirtualBox. I use it for testing web apps in IE, mostly. In my
experience, it works really, really well. It's pretty easy to set up
internal vLANs between guest machines, too.

Ben

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Ben Hodgson
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On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Hugh Glaser <hg at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> Report:
> Thought I might have a play with ChromeOS on my Mac.
> Although I have Parallels, It led me to VirtualBox, so thought I would try
> that.
> Downloaded VirtualBox, easy enough.
> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
> Installed reasonably.
> Downloaded the ChromeOS build from http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/
> Had to untar (double click) to get the image.
>
> I thought this was going to be a description of how to do it, but I ran out
> of time trying to make it notice the CD to boot off, and have stopped :-)
>
> In the end I just downloaded the Parallels image :-)
> ( http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/5172340/Chrome_OS_Image_for_Parallels )
> Seems to work alright.
>
> Also, any reports on actually using VirtualBox for other things?
>
>
>
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