Simon Cook

This guide provides a quick guide on how to use the different files that I provide for ChromiumOS.

ChromiumOS Build / Developer Image

These images are raw images of the drive that are put onto a USB device for mounting. This is done using the linux dd command using the following syntax:

dd if=/path/to/chromium_image.bin of=/dev/sdb bs=4M

Where if is a path to the extracted file, and of is the path to the main usb device (not one of its partitions, the main device). You will have to unmount any stale mounts to the USB device using umount first.

You can also mount the image and make changes (e.g. for changing sda in the bootloader to sdb) but I will extend the instructions to this soon.

ChromiumOS VMWare Machine/Hard Drive and VirtualBox Hard Drive

These are copies of the main ChromiumOS Image in virtual hard disk formats compatible with VMWare and VirtualBox. You can add these hard drives to any virtual machine and have it run, though for the VMWare version an ideal machine configuration is provided to help start you off.

I have not tested these files, and according to one of the ChromiumOS forums they may not even work anymore, but it might work for some of you.

Leaving Feedback

Once you have tested one of these images, it is useful if you can provide information on what worked/what didn’t as this may help future builds and if there are any genuine bugs found, they can go back to the Chromium team to improve the OS.