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Here's instructions and links to get the image. They have released images for VMWare and VirtualBox too. Download requires a gdgt login.

http://discuss.gdgt.com/google/chrome-os/general/Download-Ch...



> Download requires a gdgt login.

Guh. Who's gonna take one for the team and free those downloads from captivity?


Here's the VirtualBox image: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/136177/chrome-os-0.4.22.8-gdgt.vdi.z...

and here's the VMWare one: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/136177/chrome-os-0.4.22.8-gdgt.vmdk....

EDIT: Looks like you lot broke my dropbox public folder:

"Hi Hrishi,

This email is an automated notification from Dropbox that your Public links have been temporarily suspended on account of generating excessive traffic. Your Dropbox will continue to function completely normally with the exception of Public links.

If you have any questions, feel free to drop us a line at [email protected].

- The Dropbox Team"

I'm taking down the files now. If anyone from dropbox is reading can you please reactivate my public links? Thanks.


Do the DropBox guys define what "excessive" is?


The VirtualBox image just hangs at a black screen for me (using Virtual Box 3.0.4) - anyone else have this problem?


Yes me too actually. The techcrunch article said it could take a few minutes, but I've been waiting for a while now. I don't have Vmware, so I guess I'll build from source tonight.


Don't waste your time. It's just the Chrome browser. And you can't even change the screen resolution/keyboard layout.


Reboot your machine, seems to fix the problem.

(I'm the one who built these gdgt images.)


Reboot the virtual machine? That hasn't been working for me so far. Disabling USB doesn't do anything else either. Perhaps you can post the VirtualBox XML file that describes the settings used for this VM, or tell us your platform and versions?


No reboot your actual machine. Usually fixes the black screen issues.


It didn't work for me. Thanks for trying, though.


what virtualbox settings did you use? The vdi seems to do nothing.



Yep, same here on Linux x64 2.6.31 and VirtualBox 3.0.12.


Yea same for me. Nothing after 20 mins

Virtual Box 3, Osx 10.5




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