Ready? Click on the ‘play’ button to get the VM to boot up and in just a few seconds you’ll be running ChromeOS (uh, Chromium OS) and looking at this screen: No worries, VMware Fusion has ya covered:
Run vmware on mac install#
If your install is like mine, you’ll find that the CloudReady virtual machine image is darn helpful, but not entirely up to date. That’s easily ascertained by clicking on “ Finish” to proceed. Since it’s all digital with no required downloads, things move pretty quickly and before you know it, you’ll be looking at this: You can use the default, but I changed mine to “Chromium OS” so I know what it is…Ī click on “Save” lets you proceed with the import and build… Next step is to name your VM or virtual machine. From here, simply click on the blue “ Continue” button to proceed.
It’s a smidge mysterious without any specific size, a foreign system name (not “ChromiumOS”) and all, but that’s what you want. Simply double-click on the file and VMware Fusion will launch and read the open virtual appliance file set, figure out what’s going on, and prompt you with this window: Notice how it has the VMware Fusion logo on the file icon? That’s your hint. You’ll get a pretty big file like this when it’s done: OVA from the link near the bottom of the page. Ready? Start by going to CloudReady Home Edition OVA Image for VMware at and download a copy of the. ISO disk image that you install into a virtual machine. OVA file (“open virtual appliance”) that you hand to Fusion, not a more common. It’s important to note before we start that this is a bit of a different install for VMware Fusion too it’s a. In fact, you can spend more time trying to figure out what to call it (CloudReady? ChromiumOS? ChromeOS?) than getting it up and running on your Mac system! Stepping back from the confusion of all these versions and variations, the short answer is yes, you can indeed install and run ChromeOS (in essence) within VMware or VMware Fusion, and it’s actually not too difficult.
Run vmware on mac for free#
A company called NeverWare has a pre-compiled, VM-friendly version of ChromiumOS it calls CloudReady that you can download for free directly from their Web site. On the other hand, there is an open source version of ChromeOS that has 99% feature and function overlap called ChromiumOS and that you can install and run as a virtual machine. That’s part of the licensing deal from Google’s ChromeOS development team. No, because you can’t actually run ChromeOS on a non-Chromebook computer. You ask a great question and the answer turns out to be no, but yes.
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