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Wow, that didn’t take long! Yesterday Google gave a sneak peak at the long fabled Chrome OS (which will be released sometime in 2010). However under the now open sourced code you can run the Chrome OS in a virtual machine (either VMWare or Vitrual Box.

All you need to do is create a gdgt account and download the file at the following link.

1.) To use the vmdk file, open VMware and create a new virtual machine. One of the options will be to use an “existing virtual disk.” (In VMware Fusion, this is the last option below, “use operating system disk” and “use OS disc image file.”)
2.) Make sure your VM is set to use bridged networking, rather than NAT.
2.) The username and password to login to Chrome OS / Chromium OS is your google account!

Alternatively, if you don’t have VMware, some users have had luck getting this image to run using VirtualBox, which is a free cross-platform (Windows / Mac / Linux) virtual machine created by Sun Microsystem. You can download VirtualBox here:

http://www.virtualbox.org/

No, all the features don;t work and you won’t see the fabled 7 second boot time but if you need to be on the bleeding edge, this just may quench your thirst!