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Torsten Bark
Asked: 2021-08-06 06:22:02 +0800 CST

ChromeOS or a derivative in a virtual machine

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I am planning to buy a Chromebook and wanted to ask if you can install and test ChromeOS or a derivative in a virtual machine before investing that much money.

I hope I will put my question in the right group and would be very happy to receive an answer ;-)

Kind regards Torsten

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    Buy the hardware, could be a less expensive model, and evaluate it. Return or sell if not keeping it. Worst case, write off as a loss.

    On Server Fault, we assume your organization has the capital to invest in necessary tools.

    A virtual machine is not the same as actual hardware, the physical form factor of the latter is important. Yes, VMs based on ChromeOS exist, including several forks (CloudReady, NayuOS, FydeOS).

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