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Well like many people this weekend I was busy downloading and installing the Google Chrome OS VMWare image file.

It’s easy to use the file in Virtualbox using these instructions from Tech Crunch.

But also like many other people I was getting nowhere trying to log in using my Google Account username and password. The errors indicates that it’s a network problem so the comments suggest using bridged networking instead of NAT but that made no difference for me.

Finally I found a post telling me to use chronos as the username and a blank password, bingo now I could log in. When logged in found my networking was fine and it makes no difference at all if I use bridged or NAT, both work fine.

One final point is that the default keyboard is set to US so if you’re keyboard is set differently (mine is DA for Denmark) be aware of this.

I’ll leave most of the obvious comments on Chrome OS to others, as there’s plenty been said on the subject. But for those that dismiss the OS I think it’s way too early for that.

I may not want it on my main computer tomorrow but combine it with a new laptop running an ARM processor,16 GB flash drive and another year or so of development as well as an asking price that undercuts current netbooks by miles (maybe $100 in the US) and I think there will be a huge market.