Torrent Sites Welcome Google's Chrome OS

You can download the compiled source code and disk images that can be run in a virtual machine from a number of p2p file-sharing sites

Google has recently released its Chrome OS to open source and now you can find it available for free download on multiple p2p file-sharing sites like Mininova or Kickasstorrents, for example.

Reportedly, uploaders/downloaders of Chrome OS compiled the system from the bits that the company made public when released it as open source. In addition, Google posted instructions on the Chromium Projects site for using the source code to create a build.

ComputerWorld writes: “To run the Chrome OS build, users must launch a virtual machine client, such as VMware's Workstation, or for the Mac, Fusion, then install Chrome in a new virtual machine. VMware offers free 30-day trials of both Workstation 7 and Fusion 3 on its site. The free VirtualBox, a Sun-hosted open-source virtual machine, does the trick as well, users said on the file-sharing sites.”

While Google offered, however, no directions on how to run Chrome OS in a virtual machine, there were others like TechCrunch quick to fill the void. The latter provides a detailed installation guide with VirtualBox.

Download Google's Chrome OS via Kickasstorrents