chromium Windows on Chromium...

Sean_Luscombe · February 18, 2019

I'm wondering why I can't run Windows in Virtual Box on Chromium. I've a laptop that I have installed Chromium onto. I have VirtualBox installed also now on said Laptop running Chromium. Yet I can't find a way of selecting the iso file for boot in VirtualBox? Tried using it from an external USB, and I also tried copying it to the local downloads folder but I couldn't figured out how to even browse to that and if I did it was empty.

Sorry I can't get a screenshot of VB selecting the iso image.

Any feedback if this is A) even possible and B) where I'm going wrong would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

BobVonBob · February 18, 2019

Chromium doesn't allow or support virtualization by default, you will need to build Chromium yourself with support. This also seems to require you to use KVM instead of VirtualBox.

https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-devices/running-virtual-machines-on-your-chromebook

Looking at another page it doesn't seem like VirtualBox works on Chrome OS, and you will need to "dual boot" Ubuntu with Crouton if you want Chrome OS and VirtualBox without restarting.

(option 3)

https://www.howtogeek.com/173353/how-to-run-windows-software-on-a-chromebook/