Download Google Chrome OS for Free

July 13, 2010 By Greg Mombert

You can check out Google’s Chrome OS right now for free, with a free download and VMware.

Google’s open-source Chrome OS is expected to release before the end of 2010, but eager adopters can get a preview of it now. You’ll first have to install VMware, which is a virtualization software that will allow you to run Chrome OS from within Windows, Mac OSX , or Linux. Google released the open-source code for developers, but for those of you who just want to give the OS a test run, you can find a virtual machine image here that will run along with VMware.

If you’re not quite ready to jump through hoops and give Chrome OS a hands-on test run on your personal computer, check out the Chrome OS demo video below for a quick look at what the operating system is all about.

Got Chrome OS up and running? Give us your impressions in the comments section below.

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Frank at 10:27am 10th November 2010 a lot to work on
Miguel Flores Franco at 2:17pm 18th October 2010 Hey calm and wait... For those who still can´t log into the network in Google Chromium follow next: Go to Virtual Machine Settings/Hardware/Network Adapter once there, choose: "Bridged: Connected directly to the physical Network" Ok, now the problem is fixed. Enjoy!
Richard Stallman at 4:10am 5th October 2010 herp derp it just werks Ronald, you should just give up and install gentoo
BendyStraw at 7:31pm 30th July 2010 It looks silly to me. I'd rather have a real OS not just a glorified web browser...
Ronald at 2:06pm 14th July 2010 How much will this cost for me to download this to run my netbook? and how hard will it be to dump windows and install chrome os? I looks great, which all google products do. Can't wait till it comes out.
Guest at 9:14am 14th July 2010 Awesome!!! CHROME ROCKS!! Good work gooGle :)