Create a new Virtual machine in Virtual box, Select OS type Other and version Other/Unknown On the Virtual Hard Disk screen, select “Use existing hard disk” and enter the path to the VMDK file. It should boot your Chrome OS just fine…. BTW Chrome OS goes from VBOX bios screen to login in 7 seconds … Read more
If your host time is correct, you can set the following .vmx configuration file option to enable periodic synchronization: tools.syncTime = true By default, this synchronizes the time every minute. To change the periodic rate, set the following option to the desired synch time in seconds: tools.syncTime.period = 60 For this to work you need … Read more
After many attempts I was finally able to get this working. Essentially what I did was download and use the vmware converter to merge the two disks into one. After that I was able to attach the newly created disk to VitrualBox. The steps involved are very simple: BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING! 1) MAKE A … Read more
I found some adhoc solution – a bit hack perhaps but it works at least. Digging into similar issues found on google I came to a tool to extract disk descriptor out of the VMDK file. The content of the descriptor for my VMDK was something like this: # Disk DescriptorFile version=1 encoding=”windows-1252″ CID=5379bf0f parentCID=ffffffff … Read more
VM Player runs a virtual instance, but can’t create the vm. [Edit: Now it can.] Workstation allows for the creation and administration of virtual machines. If you have a second machine, you can create the vm on one and run it with the player the other machine. I bought Workstation and I use it setup … Read more