Neverware CloudReady VM (for VMWare/VirtualBox) [FREE]
Recently several tech sites ran article about using Neverware’s customized version of Chrome OS to turn old PC hardware into Chromebooks. That is of course very cool 🙂
However, would like to be able to easily test Chrome OS on modern (relatively) high-end hardware. Preferably without having to dual boot. Virtual machines to the rescue!
Here is the download link for Neverware’s VM, it works with both VMware and VirtualBox:
http://go.neverware.com/freeVM44
Here are screenshots I took of the installation process and actually running the OS:
(VMWare Workstation 12 Player on Windows 7 Pro with i5-2500K, GTX 960, MX100 500GB SSD)
- Use either VMware or VirtualBox (I chose VMware)
- Import
- Import process
- This seems simple enough
- Adobe Flash? No thank you (it’s optional)
- Enter gmail address
- Password entry
- Choose account picture
- Hello!
- Learn about the OS
- OK
- Let’s get started
- Video playback & audio work well
Some notes:
-Initially using VMWare, mouse movement is very laggy during the CloudReady setup.
-Sadly, it doesn’t seem that a VMWare Tools equivalent is actually available on CloudReady:-(
–This means CTRL+ALT is required to release the mouse from the VM
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Dear sir
thank you for your sharing
My pleasure. Thank you for your comment and have a great weekend!
Best regards,
-J.D.