How to open VMDK File of the Google-Chrome-OS bundle 2012

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As you all know  Google-Chrome-OS is released in VMWare Image File  VMDK    I ve downloaded it   however  I couldn t open it with VMWare Work Station and VMWare Player   Also I ve tried to open with Virtual Box in Ubuntu   Thus  How could I get it

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VMDK is a virtual disk file  what you need is a VMX file  Cruise on over to EasyVMX and have it create one for you  then just replace the VMDK file it gives you with the Cnrome OS one   EasyVMX is good since VMWare Player has no VM creation stuff in it  at least in version 2  not sure about 3   You had to use one of VMWare s other products to do that

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WinMount provides an easiest way to mount VMDK as a virtual disk  You can read or write to the vmdk file without loading the virtual system  Here shows you how to do  http   www winmount com mount vmdk html

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I was looking for a way to play VMDK files without the vmx file in VMware Player 5 and didn t find any explicit tutorial to do it  So after some time messing around with VMware PLayer 5  it turned out to be pretty simple  but not so intuitive  Here it is   Create a new virtual machine from VMware Player 5  There s no need to install an OS  since you already have the VMDK  Virtual Machine Disk   Set the Virtual Machine to the OS you ll be playing  the one from the VMDK   After creating the VM with the remaining creation wizard options  go to your VM settings  There you can remove the existing hard drive and add a new one  Upon addition of the new hard drive  point it to your existing VMDK file   And that s it   If you have problems starting the VM because VMware Player can t lock the VMDK file  rename delete the dir files with extension   lck from the directory where the   vmdk file is located   Hope this is helpful

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Create a new Virtual machine in Virtual box  Select OS type Other and version Other Unknown  On the Virtual Hard Disk screen  select  Use existing hard disk  and enter the path to the VMDK file   It should boot your Chrome OS just fine     BTW Chrome OS goes from VBOX bios screen to login in 7 seconds on my system

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This is for vmware workstation 6 5  It is pretty far down   select Create new virtual machine -   select custom -  on compatibility page take defaults -  check  I will install os later  -   click through several pages choosing other for OS  give it a name  make sure it IS NOT in the same folder as the VMDK file   Choose bridged network     You will now see a screen asking to select disk  select existing virual disk  then browse and select the VMDK file

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Generally  this is how you open an OS folder containing a bunch of vdmk files on VMware Player

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For me my vmdk file was accompanied by a vmx file  Opening the vmx file worked for vmware player

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you can also use vmware-mount from VMwares VDDK  Virtual Disk Development Kit   http   communities vmware com community vmtn developer forums vddk  this allows you to mount VMDK files as disk drives in windows or linux

[vmware] How to open VMDK File of the Google-Chrome-OS bundle 2012?

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