First of all, we remind you that this article is intended for beginners. Therefore, we will talk about concepts such as: What is a Virtual Machine (Virtual Machine) and what is the Operating System "Google Chrome OS", the Chromium OS. Also teach you download, install and use Google Chrome OS.
Step 1: Concepts of virtual machine and how to download Google Chrome OS (file image for VMWare Player [file type .vmdk])
Initially you should understand what is a Virtual Machine: Virtual Machine can be understood as a duplicate of a real physical computer and created through software. A virtual machine can simulate any computer: robust servers, home computers, cell phones and many others.
To use a virtual machine you must install one of these programs:
- VMWare Player 3.0 - http://downloads.vmware.com/d/details/player_3_0/ZGp0YmQlJSpiZGVkZA == (make the registration for download);
- VirtualBox 3.0.12 - http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.0.12/VirtualBox-3.0.12-54655-Win.exe
Both are free to use. But see the licenses of each to eliminate any doubt that may exist about it.
In this article we will use VMWare Player 3.0 (Figure 1):
Figure 1 - Screen About VMWare Player.
With the VMWare Player installed on your computer, now you must download Google Chrome OS (operating system of Google). Particularly we quite easily to download it from this site: http://gdgt.com/google/chrome-os/download/ (you should do a simple registration).
Note: If you only fill the screen of the form (Figure 2). From this you will receive an email confirmation that will direct you to other forms. Skip these steps. These entries are not required to download Google Chrome OS!
Figure 2 - Registration Form gdgt.com site.
Step 2: Creation of virtual machine and install Google Chrome OS
I hope you've gotten to this point: VMWare Player installed, image Google Chrome OS lowered (313MB, compressed). Right?
So come on! First. Unzip the image in the desired location (Figure 3). And our case we use the program Winrar (http://www.rarlab.com/rar/wrar391b1.exe) to do this:
Figure 3 - Selection screen folder to the unpacking and the progress of decompression.
Boot the VMWare Player and click Create a New Virtual Machine. Then choose I will install the operating system later and click Next (Figure 4):
Figure 4 - Creating a new virtual machine and selecting the option to install the operating system later.
Second. Choose Other for Guest Operating System and Other for Version as well (Figure 5). Choosing these options left to the classification VMWare Operating System and version of this, since Google Chrome OS is not on the list provided by very recent. Click Next:
Figure 5 - Screen that allows selection of the operating system and version.
Third. Name your Virtual Machine (Virtual machine name, in our case we named GoogleChromeOS) and choose the location to which you previously downloaded the image on Location (Figure 6) and click Next. After that a message will appear, telling you there is a virtual machine at your site. This is expected ...
Figure 6 - Screen that lets you name the virtual machine and choose where to store it.
Fourth. Set the maximum size for the virtual disk storage of the virtual machine (20GB chose) and how to store: Store virtual disk as a single file or split into 2GB virtual disk file (single or divided). Chose Store virtual disk as a single file, it does not change this preted Virtual Machine to another computer (Figure 7). Click Next:
Figure 7 - Screen that lets you set a size for the disk and the type of storage.
Having gone through all these steps you must configure the hardware of your virtual machine. In summary screen (Figure 8) click Customize Hardware... and put the settings as listed below. Recalling that the settings proposed by us are based on our real computer. You can select other settings if you wish:
Figure 8 - Screen where you can view the summary of the virtual machine set up and customize the hardware of this.
List of hardware configurations:
- RAM: 1024MB; (Figure 9)
- Processor - Number of processor core: 2; (Figure 10)
- Network: Bridged: Connected directly to the physical network.
Figure 9 - Setting the amount of RAM.
Figure 10 - Setting the number of processor cores.
Made these settings click OK to confirm and then Finish to complete the process of creating the Virtual Machine.
Step 3: Final configuration and login in to Google Chrome OS
Wow! We came up here! We are in the final stages of this process where we make the final configuration to finally use Google Chrome OS.
Well. In this part of the process we will replace the image file of the virtual machine. It's very simple. Just beware! A lot of attention.
Remember the name you put in your virtual machine? Ours was EXACTLY "GoogleChromeOS" (Figure 11). Let's write it down. Do the same:
Figure 11 - The name of the virtual machine.
Annotated with the name, go to the folder that you selected to store the virtual machine (forgot? Done this in Figure 6) and delete the file that has the name you selected (Figure 12).
Figure 12 - Procedure for deleting the file.
Now change the file name, the chrome-0.4.22.8-gdgt to GoogleChromeOS, boot the VMWare Player and click Play Virtual Machine to boot the system.
At this time the virtual machine should work and Google Chrome OS too. Then log in with your Google account and you're done!
Note: I've been searching and many people have had problems logging in due to not detecting network adapter. In this case, to log in offline using the User chronos@gmail.com and password chronos.
Figure 13 - Login Screen System.
