Chrome dual boot or os on desktop

[Preplexed]

I not sure if it help most people or just me

Chrome is ace browser and I use it on many machine with Linux.

Not to distract from the value of Linux has it brill, but could Chrome
not apply the same structure and allow folk to install the OS onto a
desk top as well as the browser as it is I use Chrome mostly these
days for my day to day stuff so would love to perhaps dual boot Linux
and Chrome

Any one else agree?

[Olof Johansson]

Hi,

It sure could! Seems like an awesome feature.

Unfortunately no one is working on it right now, but if you feel
strongly about it why don't you have a go at implementing it yourself?
We're an open project and it's not hard to contribute changes.

-Olof

[DennisLfromGA]

Well I may be misunderstanding the whole issue but I believe a dude by
the moniker of 'Hexxeh' has created Chromum builds for just this
purpose. You can take a look
for yourself here - http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/lime.php .

[Steve Pirk]

I think Preplexed is talking about double clicking on a desktop icon and launching ChromeOS, much like you would run a virtual machine.

Put a little bucket in a checkout line full of these usb sticks, and you have lowered the entry point for people that are curious. A lot of people are probably a bit leery about booting off of a usb stick. It is also not as fast. Many old desktops I run into do not boot off of a usb disk.

Did I get that right Olaf?

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[DennisLfromGA]

In that line of thinking then it is possible.
I have a number of OS'es that run in VirtualBox on my Ubuntu 10.10
machine to include - Windows 7 Enterprise, Windows 8 Customer Preview,
and last but not least Chromium Vanilla. One could create a desktop
icon with a launcher that invoked 'VBoxManage startvm “ChromeOS"' or
whatever name they used for the vm.

On Mar 14, 2:26 pm, Steve Pirk <pirks...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think Preplexed is talking about double clicking on a desktop icon and
> launching ChromeOS, much like you would run a virtual machine.
>
> Put a little bucket in a checkout line full of these usb sticks, and you
> have lowered the entry point for people that are curious. A lot of people
> are probably a bit leery about booting off of a usb stick. It is also not
> as fast. Many old desktops I run into do not boot off of a usb disk.
>
> Did I get that right Olaf?
>

> -- steve <http://pirk.com>

>
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:16, DennisLfromGA <denny.lockh...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Well I may be misunderstanding the whole issue but I believe a dude by
> > the moniker of 'Hexxeh' has created Chromum builds for just this
> > purpose. You can take a look
> >  for yourself here -http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/lime.php.
>
> > On Mar 13, 12:23 pm, Preplexed <prepl...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > I not sure if it help most people or just me
>
> > > Chrome is ace browser and I use it on many machine with Linux.
>
> > > Not to distract from the value of Linux has it brill, but could Chrome
> > > not apply the same structure and allow folk to install the OS onto a
> > > desk top as well as the browser as it is I use Chrome mostly these
> > > days for my day to day stuff so would love to perhaps dual boot Linux
> > > and Chrome
>
> > > Any one else agree?
>
> > --

> > Chromium OS discuss mailing list: chromium-os-disc...@chromium.org

[Steve Pirk]

Prebuilt vbox image. An even better idea, nice.

Ok, so which one of us is going to start working on it? ;-)

-- steve

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[DennisLfromGA]

Actually 'Hexxeh' is way ahead of us on this one, which is what I was
alluding to in my first post. He has pre-built VirtualBox VDI files of
ChromiumOS Vanilla daily "bleeding edge" builds. There's a blog link
here http://goo.gl/Ct37V that speaks of them and the actual links are
on his page here http://goo.gl/UOQT .
Hope this helps...

On Mar 14, 3:45 pm, Steve Pirk <pirks...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Prebuilt vbox image. An even better idea, nice.
> Ok, so which one of us is going to start working on it? ;-)
>

> -- steve <http://pirk.com>

[Steve Pirk]

Wow, Hexxeh has been busy! I did not know the bleeding edge builds were offed as vdi files. Shiny!

Thanks for the links. I might have to try it on a couple of spare machines.

-- steve

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