A Review Of Chrome OS: My Chrome OS Inside VirtualBox Adventure
Vinh Nguyen
Posted on June 3rd, 2011
Taking the cues from my reading of ZDNet’s “How to install Google’s Chrome OS,” I used VirtualBox to test out Chrome OS which is a nightly build of someone else which can be found at chromeos.hexxeh.net/vanilla.php. As ZDNet suggests, if you don’t really know how to program and compile source code, it’s best to use Chrome OS Vanilla version from Hexxeh. So how does it feel to use Chrome OS? Even though I used a virtual machine environment such as Virtualbox, yet Chrome OS was able to boot in a second or less. I couldn’t really count the short duration it took to boot up since the whole boot process happened so fast; it felt as if I got a working operating system instantly…
Tagged: Chrome OS, Google, Operating System