Chromium OS compiled - VMWare image made

[jmmL]

Decided to have a go at compiling chromiumOS. It's pretty basic, but that's the philosophy behind it. I converted it to a .vmdk and booted it using VirtualBox. I've attached some screenshots for everyone to see.

You have to log in with your gmail account, which foxed me for a few seconds. Didn't time the boot - will do that now. I can upload the vmware disk to rapidshare if there's demand and if I research how to split things across multiple archives. (I can't torrent it before anyone asks).

Download the vmdk:
I've 7zipped ide.vmdk and as a result it's much, much smaller. Unfortunately I've still had to split it across two archives, but that's still better than four! I'd recommend you use these.
http://rapidshare.com/files/310240546/ide.vmdk.7z.001
http://rapidshare.com/files/310241525/ide.vmdk.7z.002
~245MB total.

Old links in case anyone still needs them.
http://rapidshare.com/files/309484345/chromiumOS-1.tar
http://rapidshare.com/files/309485808/chromiumOS-2.tar
http://rapidshare.com/files/309487192/chromiumOS-3.tar
http://rapidshare.com/files/309488963/chromiumOS-4.tar
~720MB total.


Other sources:
I can't personally vouch for any of these - they aren't images that I have personally built.
Torrent at the pirate bay - much smaller than mine - it's been bziped to 280MB (I wish rapidshare would allow larger uploads!)
Direct download from gdgt - registration (free) required.
Both sources via this techcrunch article, found by themusicalduck.

Instructions
You'll need to extract the vmdk first. Here's what you'll see, with what you need to type in bold:

:~$ tar -x -M --file=chromiumOS-1.tar ide.vmdk
Prepare volume #2 for `chromiumOS.tar' and hit return: n chromiumOS-2.tar
Prepare volume #3 for `chromiumOS-2.tar' and hit return: n chromiumOS-3.tar
Prepare volume #4 for `chromiumOS-3.tar' and hit return: n chromiumOS-4.tar

Timings
I make it about 11 seconds from boot to log-in screen.
Then about 16 from log-in to a fully loaded gmail, which is the default state. I can confirm that it remembers which tabs were open and which one you were viewing between reboot cycles.
~4 seconds to shut down. There isn't actually a shut-down button (unless I'm being dense), so I did this via vb's "send shutdown signal" command.
Remember that this is all in a virtual machine, on under-powered hardware and on rotating media. I wasn't expecting 7 second boots!

Browser Tidbits
Here's the user agent string:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; CrOS i686 9.10.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.253.0 Safari/532.5

It scores 100/100 in acid3, but with that pink "X" in the top right-hand corner. Flash seems to be working. I've only tested youtube - it was jerky (probably just virtual machine) and I didn't test sound, but video appeared to be working at ~3fps.

Mouse and Keyboard
The keyboard defaults to en-US. There are touchpad sensitivity sliders if you click the clock and then "Open time and date options". This is where all the other options are kept for the time being as well. There is quite a cool pointer icon when hovering over links. There are multiple keyboard shortcuts. A schematic of them can be obtained by pressing F8. See #39 for shots.

Do-it-yourself
The guys working on this at Google have some brilliant documentation to go along with it. It was really, really easy to follow their instructions. Everything worked fine on an up-to-date karmic install.
Here's the page that'll get you started building: http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/...ng-chromium-os
Here are the prerequisites: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wi...sPrerequisites - but they have a neat script to grab all the dependencies for you.
Here are the actual build instructions, including guidance on how to turn your image into a vmdk, put it on a USB stick, and convert your hard-drive over to chromeOS!
http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.o...d-instructions

We have root
In hindsight, I probably should have tried this earlier. Take a look at the dev FAQ: http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/...-Shortcut-Keys
Those shortcut keys are a gold-mine! Ctrl + alt + T will open you up a terminal in a new window. Haven't really tried much yet. Sudo works though - the password for my build is chromium05. We've also got alt-tabbing through windows. Screenshots for proof in a new post - darn the 5 attachment limit!

System information
Most of this section is now in post #3.
As expected the root file system is read-only. Because /var/lib/dpkg/lock exists apt-get won't install any packages. However, because we have super-user privileges, we can simply remount the root filesystem to be writable.

sudo mount -o remount,rw /

Now we can do pretty much whatever we want!

Making a USB image
Some people have requested the mbr.image and/or the rootfs.image, so that they can make a USB image.
Here is the mbr.image:
http://rapidshare.com/files/310321805/mbr.image
It's 512 bytes. md5: 69f612ef469475f8c4a086d1ae21bca0

and here's the build folder (hence the odd name) 7zipped up:
http://rapidshare.com/files/31032684...3733-a1.7z.001
http://rapidshare.com/files/31032759...3733-a1.7z.002
~245MB total.

If you've got the scripts that google has provided, then I think it should be a simple matter of running image_to_usb.sh - but I haven't tried this myself.

[Shpongle]

il seed it !, cant promise il always be on but il be happy to seed along with #! and karmic, and give back!

[jmmL]

I've reached my attachment limit on the first post. Here's a shot of the memory manager (pretty much like chromium-browser I think). This guest is running with 768MB of RAM and 128MB video memory. The host is a laptop - T5450 1.6GHz (no Intel VT-x), 2GB RAM, rotating media and a nVidia 8600M 512MB. The vmdk is about 720MB.

I removed this bit from the first post; it was cluttering things up.
System information
Here's the output of dpkg -l

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                      Version                                 Description
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ii  alsa-utils                                1.0.20-2ubuntu1                         ALSA utilities
ii  apt                                       0.7.21ubuntu1                           Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  apt-utils                                 0.7.21ubuntu1                           APT utility programs
ii  aptitude                                  0.4.11.11-1ubuntu4                      terminal-based package manager
ii  base-files                                5.0.0ubuntu6                            Debian base system miscellaneous files
ii  base-passwd                               3.5.21                                  Debian base system master password and group
ii  bash                                      3.2-5ubuntu2                            The GNU Bourne Again SHell
ii  bootchart                                 0.90.1-3                                boot sequence auditing
ii  bootchart-java                            0.10~svn407-3ubuntu1                    Boot process performance analyser (visualisa
ii  bsdutils                                  1:2.16-1ubuntu1                         Basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite
ii  busybox-initramfs                         1:1.13.3-1ubuntu5                       Standalone shell setup for initramfs
ii  bzip2                                     1.0.5-3                                 high-quality block-sorting file compressor -
ii  ca-certificates                           20090701                                Common CA certificates
ii  ca-certificates-java                      20090629                                Common CA certificates (JKS keystore)
ii  chromeos-assets                           0.3                                     Chrome OS platform assets
ii  chromeos-chrome                           0.1                                     chromeos chrome
ii  chromeos-connman                          0.3                                     connman
ii  chromeos-cryptohome                       0.1                                     Helper scripts which smooth the integration 
ii  chromeos-init                             0.3                                     Chrome OS init scripts
ii  chromeos-installer                        0.1                                     Chrome OS installer
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ii  chromeos-ply-image                        0.1                                     Chrome OS boot splash image loader.
ii  chromeos-screenlocker                     1.0-1                                   Screen locker configuration for Chrome OS.  
ii  chromeos-wm                               0.4                                     Chrome OS window manager
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ii  debianutils                               2.30ubuntu3                             Miscellaneous utilities specific to Debian
ii  default-jre-headless                      1.6-30ubuntu5                           Standard Java or Java compatible Runtime (he
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ii  devicekit-disks                           006-0ubuntu4                            abstraction for enumerating block devices
ii  devicekit-power                           010-0ubuntu1                            abstraction for power management
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ii  dhcp3-common                              3.1.2-1ubuntu5                          common files used by all the dhcp3* packages
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ii  dmidecode                                 2.9-1ubuntu1                            Dump Desktop Management Interface data
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ii  e2fsprogs                                 1.41.8-1ubuntu2                         ext2/ext3/ext4 file system utilities
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ii  gcj-jre-headless                          4:4.4.0-3ubuntu1                        Java runtime environment using GIJ/classpath
ii  gconf2-common                             2.26.2-3ubuntu2                         GNOME configuration database system (common 
ii  gnupg                                     1.4.9-4ubuntu5                          GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
ii  gpgv                                      1.4.9-4ubuntu5                          GNU privacy guard - signature verification t
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ii  gzip                                      1.3.12-8ubuntu1                         GNU compression utilities
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ii  hostname                                  2.95                                    utility to set/show the host name or domain 
ii  icedtea-6-jre-cacao                       6b16~pre5-0ubuntu2                      Alternative JVM for OpenJDK, using Cacao
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ii  initscripts                               2.86.ds1-61ubuntu16                     Scripts for initializing and shutting down t
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ii  iptables                                  1.4.4-1ubuntu1                          administration tools for packet filtering an
ii  iputils-ping                              3:20071127-1build1                      Tools to test the reachability of network ho
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ii  libblkid1                                 2.16-1ubuntu1                           block device id library
ii  libbz2-1.0                                1.0.5-3                                 high-quality block-sorting file compressor l
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ii  libcap2                                   1:2.16-5ubuntu1                         support for getting/setting POSIX.1e capabil
ii  libck-connector0                          0.3.1-0ubuntu1                          ConsoleKit libraries
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ii  libcloog-ppl0                             0.15-1                                  the Chunky Loop Generator (runtime library)
ii  libclutter-0.9-0                          0.9.8-0ubuntu1                          Open GL based interactive canvas library
ii  libcomerr2                                1.41.8-1ubuntu2                         common error description library
ii  libcommons-cli-java                       1.1-3ubuntu1                            API for working with the command line argume
ii  libcommons-compress-java                  0~svn604876-1                           Java API for working with tar, zip and bzip2
ii  libcommons-lang-java                      2.4-1ubuntu1                            Extension of the java.lang package
ii  libcups2                                  1.3.11-1ubuntu1                         Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - libs
ii  libcurl3                                  7.19.5-1ubuntu2                         Multi-protocol file transfer library (OpenSS
ii  libcurl3-gnutls                           7.19.5-1ubuntu1                         Multi-protocol file transfer library (GnuTLS
ii  libcwidget3                               0.5.12-4ubuntu2                         high-level terminal interface library for C+
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ii  libdb4.7                                  4.7.25-7ubuntu2                         Berkeley v4.7 Database Libraries [runtime]
ii  libdbus-1-3                               1.2.16-0ubuntu2                         simple interprocess messaging system
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                          0.80-4                                  simple interprocess messaging system (GLib-b
ii  libdevkit-power-gobject1                  010-0ubuntu1                            abstraction for power management - shared li
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1                        2:1.02.27-4ubuntu6                      The Linux Kernel Device Mapper userspace lib
ii  libdirectfb-1.2-0                         1.2.7-2ubuntu1                          direct frame buffer graphics - shared librar
ii  libdrm-intel1                             2.4.12-1ubuntu1                         Userspace interface to intel-specific kernel
ii  libdrm2                                   2.4.12-1ubuntu1                         Userspace interface to kernel DRM services -
ii  libedit2                                  2.11~20080614-2                         BSD editline and history libraries
ii  libeggdbus-1-0                            0.5-1                                   D-Bus bindings for GObject
ii  libept0                                   0.5.26build1                            High-level library for managing Debian packa
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ii  libffi5                                   3.0.7-1ubuntu1                          Foreign Function Interface library runtime
ii  libflac8                                  1.2.1-2                                 Free Lossless Audio Codec - runtime C librar
ii  libfontconfig1                            2.6.0-1ubuntu12                         generic font configuration library - runtime
ii  libfontenc1                               1:1.0.4-3                               X11 font encoding library
ii  libfreetype6                              2.3.9-5                                 FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files
ii  libfribidi0                               0.10.9-1build1                          Free Implementation of the Unicode BiDi algo
ii  libgcc1                                   1:4.4.1-1ubuntu3                        GCC support library
ii  libgcj-common                             1:4.4.0-3ubuntu1                        Java runtime library (common files)
ii  libgcj10                                  4.4.1-1ubuntu4                          Java runtime library for use with gcj
ii  libgcj10-awt                              4.4.1-1ubuntu4                          AWT peer runtime libraries for use with gcj
ii  libgconf2-4                               2.26.2-3ubuntu2                         GNOME configuration database system (shared 
ii  libgcrypt11                               1.4.4-2ubuntu2                          LGPL Crypto library - runtime library
ii  libgdbm3                                  1.8.3-4                                 GNU dbm database routines (runtime version)
ii  libgflags0                                1.1-1                                   a library that implements commandline flags
ii  libgl1-mesa-dri                           7.5-1ubuntu1                            A free implementation of the OpenGL API -- D
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx                           7.5-1ubuntu1                            A free implementation of the OpenGL API -- G
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ii  libgmpxx4ldbl                             2:4.3.1+dfsg-1ubuntu2                   Multiprecision arithmetic library (C++ bindi
ii  libgnutls26                               2.6.6-1                                 the GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgpg-error0                             1.6-1ubuntu1                            library for common error values and messages
ii  libgpm2                                   1.20.4-3.2                              General Purpose Mouse - shared library
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2                          1.7dfsg~beta3-1                         MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - krb5 GSS-AP
ii  libgtk2.0-0                               2.17.6-0ubuntu2                         The GTK+ graphical user interface library
ii  libgtk2.0-bin                             2.17.6-0ubuntu2                         The programs for the GTK+ graphical user int
ii  libgtk2.0-common                          2.17.6-0ubuntu2                         Common files for the GTK+ graphical user int
ii  libgudev-1.0-0                            1:145-1                                 GObject-based wrapper library for libudev
ii  libhal1                                   0.5.13-1ubuntu1                         Hardware Abstraction Layer - shared library
ii  libhx18                                   2.9-3                                   A library providing queue, tree, I/O and uti
ii  libice6                                   2:1.0.5-1                               X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libidl0                                   0.8.13-0.1                              library for parsing CORBA IDL files
ii  libidn11                                  1.15-1                                  GNU Libidn library, implementation of IETF I
ii  libio-string-perl                         1.08-2                                  Emulate IO::File interface for in-core strin
ii  libiw29                                   29-2ubuntu3                             Wireless tools - library
ii  libjasper1                                1.900.1-6                               The JasPer JPEG-2000 runtime library
ii  libjline-java                             0.9.94-1ubuntu1                         Java library for handling console input
ii  libjpeg62                                 6b-14build1                             The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG runtime li
ii  libk5crypto3                              1.7dfsg~beta3-1                         MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - Crypto Libr
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ii  libtext-charwidth-perl                    0.04-5build1                            get display widths of characters on the term
ii  libtext-iconv-perl                        1.7-1build1                             converts between character sets in Perl
ii  libtext-wrapi18n-perl                     0.06-7                                  internationalized substitute of Text::Wrap
ii  libthai-data                              0.1.12-1                                Data files for Thai language support library
ii  libthai0                                  0.1.12-1                                Thai language support library
ii  libtiff4                                  3.8.2-13                                Tag Image File Format (TIFF) library
ii  libtimedate-perl                          1.1600-9                                Time and date functions for Perl
ii  libts-0.0-0                               1.0-7                                   touch screen library
ii  libudev0                                  145-1                                   udev library
ii  libusb-0.1-4                              2:0.1.12-13                             userspace USB programming library
ii  libuuid1                                  2.16-1ubuntu1                           Universally Unique ID library
ii  libvorbis0a                               1.2.0.dfsg-5                            The Vorbis General Audio Compression Codec: 
ii  libvorbisenc2                             1.2.0.dfsg-5                            The Vorbis General Audio Compression Codec: 
ii  libwrap0                                  7.6.q-16                                Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers library
ii  libx11-6                                  2:1.2.2-1ubuntu1                        X11 client-side library
ii  libx11-data                               2:1.2.2-1ubuntu1                        X11 client-side library
ii  libxapian15                               1.0.14-1                                Search engine library
ii  libxau6                                   1:1.0.4-2                               X11 authorisation library
ii  libxaw7                                   2:1.0.6-1                               X11 Athena Widget library
ii  libxcb-render-util0                       0.3.5-1                                 utility libraries for X C Binding -- render-
ii  libxcb-render0                            1.4-1                                   X C Binding, render extension
ii  libxcb1                                   1.4-1                                   X C Binding
ii  libxcomposite1                            1:0.4.0-4                               X11 Composite extension library
ii  libxcursor1                               1:1.1.9-1build1                         X cursor management library
ii  libxdamage1                               1:1.1.1-4                               X11 damaged region extension library
ii  libxdmcp6                                 1:1.0.2-3                               X11 Display Manager Control Protocol library
ii  libxext6                                  2:1.0.99.1-0ubuntu3                     X11 miscellaneous extension library
ii  libxfixes3                                1:4.0.3-2build1                         X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extension library
ii  libxfont1                                 1:1.4.0-1ubuntu1                        X11 font rasterisation library
ii  libxft2                                   2.1.13-3ubuntu1                         FreeType-based font drawing library for X
ii  libxi6                                    2:1.2.1-2ubuntu1                        X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1                              2:1.0.3-2                               X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxkbfile1                               1:1.0.5-1ubuntu2                        X11 keyboard file manipulation library
ii  libxml2                                   2.7.3.dfsg-1ubuntu1                     GNOME XML library
ii  libxmu6                                   2:1.0.4-1build1                         X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxmuu1                                  2:1.0.4-1build1                         X11 miscellaneous micro-utility library
ii  libxpm4                                   1:3.5.7-2                               X11 pixmap library
ii  libxrandr2                                2:1.3.0-2                               X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1                               1:0.9.4-2                               X Rendering Extension client library
ii  libxt6                                    1:1.0.5-3ubuntu1                        X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  libxtrap6                                 2:1.0.0-5build1                         X11 event trapping extension library
ii  libxtst6                                  2:1.0.3-1ubuntu2                        X11 Testing -- Resource extension library
ii  libxv1                                    2:1.0.4-1                               X11 Video extension library
ii  libxvmc1                                  2:1.0.4-2ubuntu1                        X11 Video extension library
ii  libxxf86dga1                              2:1.0.2-1build1                         X11 Direct Graphics Access extension library
ii  libxxf86misc1                             1:1.0.1-3                               X11 XFree86 miscellaneous extension library
ii  libxxf86vm1                               1:1.0.2-1                               X11 XFree86 video mode extension library
ii  linux-image-2.6.30-chromeos-intel-menlow  002                                     Linux kernel binary image for version 2.6.30
ii  linux-sound-base                          1.0.20+dfsg-1ubuntu4                    base package for ALSA and OSS sound systems
ii  locales                                   2.9+git20090617-1                       common files for locale support
ii  lockfile-progs                            0.1.13                                  Programs for locking and unlocking files and
ii  login                                     1:4.1.4.1-1ubuntu2                      system login tools
ii  lsb-base                                  4.0-0ubuntu2                            Linux Standard Base 4.0 init script function
ii  lsb-release                               4.0-0ubuntu2                            Linux Standard Base version reporting utilit
ii  lsof                                      4.81.dfsg.1-1                           List open files
ii  lzma                                      4.43-14ubuntu1                          Compression method of 7z format in 7-Zip pro
ii  make                                      3.81-6                                  An utility for Directing compilation.
ii  makedev                                   2.3.1-88                                creates device files in /dev
ii  mawk                                      1.3.3-14ubuntu1                         a pattern scanning and text processing langu
ii  memento-updater                           0.2                                     Memento Autoupdater
ii  mime-support                              3.46-1                                  MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap', and sup
ii  module-init-tools                         3.10-2                                  tools for managing Linux kernel modules
ii  mount                                     2.16-1ubuntu1                           Tools for mounting and manipulating filesyst
ii  ncurses-base                              5.7+20090607-1ubuntu1                   basic terminal type definitions
ii  ncurses-bin                               5.7+20090607-1ubuntu1                   terminal-related programs and man pages
ii  net-tools                                 1.60-23ubuntu1                          The NET-3 networking toolkit
ii  netbase                                   4.35ubuntu1                             Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii  netcat                                    1.10-38                                 TCP/IP swiss army knife -- transitional pack
ii  netcat-traditional                        1.10-38                                 TCP/IP swiss army knife
ii  ntp                                       1:4.2.4p6+dfsg-1ubuntu4                 Network Time Protocol daemon and utility pro
ii  ntpdate                                   1:4.2.4p6+dfsg-1ubuntu2                 client for setting system time from NTP serv
ii  openjdk-6-jre-headless                    6b16~pre5-0ubuntu2                      OpenJDK Java runtime, using Hotspot JIT (hea
ii  openjdk-6-jre-lib                         6b16~pre5-0ubuntu2                      OpenJDK Java runtime (architecture independe
ii  openssh-client                            1:5.1p1-6ubuntu1                        secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh/rcp repla
ii  openssh-server                            1:5.1p1-6ubuntu1                        secure shell server, an rshd replacement
ii  openssl                                   0.9.8g-16ubuntu2                        Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related
ii  passwd                                    1:4.1.4.1-1ubuntu2                      change and administer password and group dat
ii  pciutils                                  1:3.0.0-4ubuntu11                       Linux PCI Utilities
ii  perl                                      5.10.0-24ubuntu2                        Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report
ii  perl-base                                 5.10.0-24ubuntu2                        minimal Perl system
ii  perl-modules                              5.10.0-24ubuntu2                        Core Perl modules
ii  policykit-1                               0.94-0ubuntu1                           framework for managing administrative polici
ii  procps                                    1:3.2.8-1ubuntu2                        /proc file system utilities
ii  python                                    2.6.2-0ubuntu1                          An interactive high-level object-oriented la
ii  python-central                            0.6.11ubuntu7                           register and build utility for Python packag
ii  python-dbus                               0.83.0-1ubuntu2                         simple interprocess messaging system (Python
ii  python-gobject                            2.18.0-0ubuntu1                         Python bindings for the GObject library
ii  python-minimal                            2.6.2-0ubuntu1                          A minimal subset of the Python language (def
ii  python-support                            1.0.3ubuntu1                            automated rebuilding support for Python modu
ii  python2.6                                 2.6.2-0ubuntu3                          An interactive high-level object-oriented la
ii  python2.6-minimal                         2.6.2-0ubuntu3                          A minimal subset of the Python language (ver
ii  readline-common                           6.0-0ubuntu1                            GNU readline and history libraries, common f
ii  rhino                                     1.7R2-1ubuntu1                          JavaScript engine written in Java
ii  rsyslog                                   4.2.0-1ubuntu2                          enhanced multi-threaded syslogd
ii  sed                                       4.2.1-1                                 The GNU sed stream editor
ii  sgml-base                                 1.26                                    SGML infrastructure and SGML catalog file su
ii  shared-mime-info                          0.60-2                                  FreeDesktop.org shared MIME database and spe
ii  slim                                      1.3.1-chromeos3                         desktop-independent graphical login manager 
ii  sudo                                      1.7.0-1ubuntu2                          Provide limited super user privileges to spe
ii  sysv-rc                                   2.86.ds1-61ubuntu16                     System-V-like runlevel change mechanism
ii  sysvinit-utils                            2.86.ds1-61ubuntu16                     System-V-like utilities
ii  tar                                       1.22-1                                  GNU version of the tar archiving utility
ii  tasksel                                   2.73ubuntu20                            Tool for selecting tasks for installation on
ii  tasksel-data                              2.73ubuntu20                            Official tasks used for installation of Debi
ii  tcpd                                      7.6.q-16                                Wietse Venema's TCP wrapper utilities
ii  tsconf                                    1.0-7                                   touch screen library common files
ii  ttf-dejavu                                2.29-2                                  Metapackage to pull in ttf-dejavu-core and t
ii  ttf-dejavu-core                           2.29-2                                  Vera font family derivate with additional ch
ii  ttf-dejavu-extra                          2.29-2                                  Vera font family derivate with additional ch
ii  ttf-droid                                 1.00~b112+dfsg+1-0ubuntu1               handheld device font with extensive style an
ii  tzdata                                    2009k-2                                 time zone and daylight-saving time data
ii  tzdata-java                               2009k-2                                 time zone and daylight-saving time data for 
ii  ubuntu-keyring                            2008.03.04                              GnuPG keys of the Ubuntu archive
ii  ubuntu-minimal                            1.158                                   Minimal core of Ubuntu
ii  ucf                                       3.0018                                  Update Configuration File: preserve user cha
ii  udev                                      145-1                                   rule-based device node and kernel event mana
ii  upstart                                   0.6.3-1                                 event-based init daemon
ii  util-linux                                2.16-1ubuntu1                           Miscellaneous system utilities
ii  vim-common                                2:7.2.148-2ubuntu2                      Vi IMproved - Common files
ii  vim-tiny                                  2:7.2.148-2ubuntu2                      Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor - compact v
ii  wget                                      1.11.4-2ubuntu1                         retrieves files from the web
ii  whiptail                                  0.52.10-4                               Displays user-friendly dialog boxes from she
ii  wireless-tools                            29-2ubuntu3                             Tools for manipulating Linux Wireless Extens
ii  x-ttcidfont-conf                          32                                      TrueType and CID fonts configuration for X
ii  x11-common                                1:7.4+3ubuntu5                          X Window System (X.Org) infrastructure
ii  x11-utils                                 7.4+1build1                             X11 utilities
ii  x11-xkb-utils                             7.4+3                                   X11 XKB utilities
ii  x11-xserver-utils                         7.4+2                                   X server utilities
ii  xauth                                     1:1.0.3-2                               X authentication utility
ii  xbitmaps                                  1.0.1-2ubuntu1                          Base X bitmaps
ii  xdg-utils                                 1.0.2-6.1                               desktop integration utilities from freedeskt
ii  xfonts-encodings                          1:1.0.2-3                               Encodings for X.Org fonts
ii  xfonts-utils                              1:7.4+1ubuntu1                          X Window System font utility programs
ii  xkb-data                                  1.6-1ubuntu1                            X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configuration dat
ii  xml-core                                  0.12                                    XML infrastructure and XML catalog file supp
ii  xscreensaver                              5.0.8-chromeos2                         Screen locker for Chrome OS
ii  xserver-common                            2:1.6.3-1ubuntu1                        common files used by various X servers
ii  xserver-xorg                              1:7.4+3ubuntu5                          the X.Org X server
ii  xserver-xorg-core                         2:1.6.3-1ubuntu2                        Xorg X server - core server
ii  xserver-xorg-input-all                    1:7.4+3ubuntu5                          the X.Org X server -- input driver metapacka
ii  xserver-xorg-input-evdev                  1:2.2.2-1ubuntu2                        X.Org X server -- evdev input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-kbd                    1:1.3.2-3                               X.Org X server -- keyboard input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-mouse                  1:1.4.0-2                               X.Org X server -- mouse input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-input-synaptics              1.1.2-1ubuntu5                          Synaptics TouchPad driver for X.Org server
ii  xserver-xorg-input-wacom                  1:0.8.3.2-1ubuntu1                      X.Org X server -- Wacom input driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-all                    1:7.4+3ubuntu5                          the X.Org X server -- output driver metapack
ii  xserver-xorg-video-apm                    1:1.2.1-2                               X.Org X server -- APM display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-ark                    1:0.7.1-2                               X.Org X server -- ark display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-ati                    1:6.12.99+git20090629.f39cafc5-0ubuntu5 X.Org X server -- ATI display driver wrapper
ii  xserver-xorg-video-chips                  1:1.2.1-3                               X.Org X server -- Chips display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-cirrus                 1:1.3.1-1                               X.Org X server -- Cirrus display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-fbdev                  1:0.4.0-4                               X.Org X server -- fbdev display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-geode                  2.11.3-1                                X.Org server -- Geode GX2/LX display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-i128                   1:1.3.2-1                               X.Org X server -- i128 display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-i740                   1:1.3.0-1                               X.Org X server -- i740 display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-intel                  2:2.8.0-0ubuntu3                        X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx display d
ii  xserver-xorg-video-mach64                 6.8.0+git20090201.d394e0b8-2            X.Org X server -- ATI Mach64 display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-mga                    1:1.4.10.dfsg-1                         X.Org X server -- MGA display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-neomagic               1:1.2.3-1                               X.Org X server -- Neomagic display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-nv                     1:2.1.14-2ubuntu2                       X.Org X server -- NV display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-openchrome             1:0.2.903+svn758-0ubuntu1               X.Org X server -- VIA display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-r128                   6.8.0+git20090201.08d56c88-2            X.Org X server -- ATI r128 display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-radeon                 1:6.12.99+git20090629.f39cafc5-0ubuntu5 X.Org X server -- ATI Radeon display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-rendition              1:4.2.1-1                               X.Org X server -- Rendition display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-s3                     1:0.6.2-1                               X.Org X server -- legacy S3 display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-s3virge                1:1.10.2-2                              X.Org X server -- S3 ViRGE display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-savage                 1:2.3.0-1                               X.Org X server -- Savage display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion          1:1.7.2-1                               X.Org X server -- SiliconMotion display driv
ii  xserver-xorg-video-sis                    1:0.10.1-2                              X.Org X server -- SiS display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-sisusb                 1:0.9.1-1                               X.Org X server -- SiS USB display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-tdfx                   1:1.4.1-1                               X.Org X server -- tdfx display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-trident                1:1.3.1-1                               X.Org X server -- Trident display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-tseng                  1:1.2.1-1                               X.Org X server -- Tseng display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-v4l                    1:0.2.0-3ubuntu1                        X.Org X server -- Video 4 Linux display driv
ii  xserver-xorg-video-vesa                   1:2.2.0-1                               X.Org X server -- VESA display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-vmware                 1:10.16.7-1                             X.Org X server -- VMware display driver
ii  xserver-xorg-video-voodoo                 1:1.2.2-1                               X.Org X server -- Voodoo display driver
ii  xterm                                     243-1ubuntu1                            X terminal emulator
ii  zlib1g                                    1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13ubuntu1                compression library - runtime

Here's uname -a

Linux localhost 2.6.30-chromeos-intel-menlow #1 SMP Fri Nov 20 01:27:51 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

And df -h

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs                936M  589M  299M  67% /
udev                  376M  376M     0 100% /dev
/dev/disk/by-label/C-ROOT
                      936M  589M  299M  67% /
/tmp                  376M  8.0K  376M   1% /tmp
shmfs                 376M  140K  376M   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1             936M   22M  867M   3% /mnt/stateful_partition
/dev/sda1             936M   22M  867M   3% /var/cache
/dev/sda1             936M   22M  867M   3% /var/log
vartmp                376M   20K  376M   1% /var/tmp
/dev/sda1             936M   22M  867M   3% /home
varrun                376M   44K  376M   1% /var/run
varlock               376M     0  376M   0% /var/lock
/media                376M     0  376M   0% /media
/dev/mapper/cryptohome
                      376M   15M  362M   4% /home/chronos
tmpfs                 376M   15M  362M   4% /home/chronos

[jmmL]

il seed it !, cant promise il always be on but il be happy to seed along with #! and karmic, and give back!

I'm just trying to figure out how to split it into multiple archives. If anyone has any guides, that'd really speed things up. Shouldn't take long to upload once that's done though.

[Dougie187]

You could do it with tar, or rar. Thought with rar I don't know how to. But with Tar you have to use -M -L, for the use of them you should look it up in the man page.

-L has to be followed by the archive size.

[Tipped OuT]

Finally! Screen shots! I think we just made history here guys.

[obscurant1st]

hey pls upload it to Rapidshare, if u r having difficulties on splitting it i cn help u..

[jmmL]

You could do it with tar, or rar. Thought with rar I don't know how to. But with Tar you have to use -M -L, for the use of them you should look it up in the man page.

-L has to be followed by the archive size.

Okay, thanks for the pointer. I'm uploading "ide.vmdk" which is the image for chromiumOS. The root password on this image is "chromium05", but I couldn't figure out how to get to a terminal, so it might be of limited use for the time being!

Links:
http://rapidshare.com/files/309484345/chromiumOS-1.tar
http://rapidshare.com/files/309485808/chromiumOS-2.tar
http://rapidshare.com/files/309487192/chromiumOS-3.tar
http://rapidshare.com/files/309488963/chromiumOS-4.tar

Here is what you need to do, with what you need to type in bold:

:~$ tar -x -M --file=chromiumOS-1.tar ide.vmdk
Prepare volume #2 for `chromiumOS.tar' and hit return: n chromiumOS-2.tar
Prepare volume #3 for `chromiumOS-2.tar' and hit return: n chromiumOS-3.tar
Prepare volume #4 for `chromiumOS-3.tar' and hit return: n chromiumOS-4.tar

That will give you ide.vmdk in your home folder. I did a test run with mine and md5summed to check there weren't any errors.

I would have liked to use rar, just because it seems more simple to extract. Tar will do for the time being.

The Google documentation on building it from start to finish was absolutely fantastic. Everything went without a hitch (or at least, so I can tell!).

[etnlIcarus]

Anyone else feel claustrophobic just looking at those screen shots?

[Islington]

Anyone else feel claustrophobic just looking at those screen shots?

not really, screenspace is for use, are you the one with the ridiculously/amazingly complex window oranization xfce setup?