Announcing the Release of the World's First 64-bit Build of Google's Chromium OS with Xen Virtualization Support

[Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)]

*Xen slips in Google Chrome OS (sort of)*

<QUOTE www.virtualization.info>

Google didn’t release
yet<http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/releasing-chromium-os-open-source.html>its
lightweight operating system for netbooks, Chrome OS, and many people
already rushed to customize the early source
code<http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/building-chromium-os/getting-the-chromium-os-source-code>to
create fully-functional images that can boot
inside a virtual
machine<http://lifehacker.com/5408932/chrome-os-virtual-machine-build-ready-for-your-testing>or
on
real hardware<http://en.community.dell.com/blogs/direct2dell/archive/2009/11/25/chrome-os-wi-fi-support-running-on-a-mini-10v-source-code-available.aspx>
.

One of these early experiments is particularly interesting for the
virtualization community because it modifies the Chromium OS open source
code to include Xen.

The one that released this project, called ChromiumOS64, is Teo En Ming, who
hacked the code to support 64bit platforms (the Google code only supports
32bit architectures at the moment because it targets Intel Atom CPUs that
powers most netbooks) and integrate Xen 3.4.3 RC1.

This 64bit Xen-powered Chromium OS build is able to run Windows virtual
machines (from XP to 7, including Server 2000, 2003 and 2008) as long as the
physical CPU has Intel VT-x or AMD-V.
It even supports I/O virtualization as long as the CPU has Intel VT-d and
the PCI Express graphic card has its drivers included in the build.

Of course the project is available for free
<http://www.chromiumos64.com/>and you can even run in from a USB thumb
drive.

</QUOTE>

Source:
http://www.virtualization.info/2009/12/xen-slips-in-google-chrome-os-sort-of.html



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Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) Dip(Mechatronics) BEng(Hons)(Mechanical
Engineering)
Alma Maters:
(1) Singapore Polytechnic
(2) National University of Singapore
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