CloudReady in Virtualbox

Publish date: Nov 11, 2015
Tags: wkstation chromebook

The ChromeOS has been a great experience so far. One problem, however, is that you generally need to purchase a Chromebook to use it, or go through compiling the ChromeOS from source. A few days ago I came across Neverware’s CloudReady, which provides an freely available (to individuals) ChromeOS experience on generic hardware.

Cloudready, however, does not support dual boot, so it will wipe away anything on the machine. Following some hints from this page I was able to get the CloudReady to install on a Virtualbox VM, without the need to create a USB bootable drive.

VBoxManage convertfromraw cloudready-free-43.1.37.bin cloudready-free-43.1.37.vdi
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