Chrome Os For Mac Os X

  

If you dream of being able to install Mac OS X on a Chromebook it is time to open your eyes. Someone has done it.

For Mac OS X 10.10 or later. This computer will no longer receive Google Chrome updates because Mac OS X 10.6 - 10.9 are no longer supported. This computer will no longer receive Google Chrome. To use Chrome Browser on Mac, you'll need: OS X Yosemite 10.10 or later; Linux. To use Chrome Browser on Linux, you'll need: 64-bit Ubuntu 14.04+, Debian 8+, openSUSE 13.3+, or Fedora Linux 24+ An Intel Pentium 4 processor or later that's SSE2 capable; Was this helpful? How can we improve it?

In another case of “because why not?”, developer ‘Coolstar’ has managed to squeeze Mac OS X 10.9.1 ‘Mavericks’ on to his (upgraded) Acer C720 Chromebook.

Yes, natively.

Chrome theme designed for Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite. I have a MacBook Air and I downloaded this on my Windows custom rig. I just wanted the cool little iOS. Google today released Chrome 39, the company's first 64-bit browser for OS X from its 'stable' branch. The update also patched 42 vulnerabilities and paid $41,500 in bounties to the bug hunters. Mac os x 10 07 download chrome. A launch it button rather than download or install and when you launch it you can keep it on your dock, just like any other app and uninstall chrome.

yup, at the desktop of OS X 10.9.1… On a chromebook, lol pic.twitter.com/lYpqMzFOGG

— CoolStar (@coolstarorg) June 2, 2015

Installing OS X on hardware that is not sold by Apple is difficult but not super difficult.

An entire ‘hackintosh‘ community has grown up around the concept and is dedicated to providing the tools, custom drivers and kernel patches needed to run the OS on devices Apple would rather it didn’t.

For this Acer C720 Chromebook Coolstar says he needed to use a ‘custom coreboot and fake CPU via clover EFI’.

Mavericks doesn’t run smoothly on the notebook, neither figuratively or literally. A lack of graphics acceleration means Safari is “sluggish”. Many of the core interface animations and workflows will also be affected.

Is this real?

I know what some of you may be thinking: that this isn’t real. It must be Mac OS X 10.9 running in a virtual machine, right?

Maybe. But given the developer behind this effort that is highly unlikely.

Coolstar is not an unknown. He has form for tinkering, fudging and hacking, from iOS to Chrome OS.

Last month he detailed his on-going effort to get Windows 8.1 running on this exact same Chromebook — even going as far as to port Linux drivers to Windows by hand.

Now that’s dedication!

The question of whether the effort it takes to install alternative OSes on a Chromebook, often with wildly varying degrees of success, is worth it.

But I think that question misses the core point of why people like Coolstar do this. They do it because they can.

Users who wish to run Google’s Chrome OS on their Mac OS X and do not know how to do this for them we are writing the following instruction set. So, follow the steps written below to run and experience the Google Chromium operating system on Mac OS X without disturbing existing OS X.

How To Run Chrome OS in Mac OS X

Download and install VirtualBox for Intel Macs
Download Google Chrome OS Virtual Image file

  • Run VirtualBox setup that you have downloaded and follow the instructions of installation wizard. When you finished installation then click on its icon to launch it.
  • When you run VirtualBox this will prompt for registration. You can register or skip the registration phase. Click on New to create a virtual machine
  • In following window click on Next
  • Type ChromeOS in Name field or select any other name of your choice. Select Operating System as Linux and Version Ubuntu. Click Next to move further
  • Set amount of memory to allocate to virtual machine as we did 512 MB and click Next
  • Here, select Use existing hard disk radio button and click on yellow folder icon
  • Click on Add option
  • Navigate to downloaded .vmdk chrome os file and click on Open button
  • Select the loaded virtual image of Chrome OS and click on Select button
  • Click on Next
  • Click on Finish to complete the loading process of Chrome OS
  • Now, in VirtualBox click on Start to run Chrome OS
  • After a while Chrome OS interface will display and ask to get login through you Google mail account

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So, this was the process to run Chrome OS through VirtualBox on Mac OS X. This Chrome OS virtual image is created by gdgt hexxeh.

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