Chrome OS was released for developers.Iit didn’t take too long for the uber techies to compile it and make it available for us to try the new OS.
Chrome OS is now installable using VMware (VMfusion for Mac) or Virtualbox for Windows/Mac/*nix flavors.

There are two installation copies available at the moment one made available at Gdgt and the other one available on Torrents.I’ve used OS Set up from the Torrents

Gdgt Download Click here
Torrent Download Click here

Chrome OS is nothing more than a browser, a Chrome browser.

Even eventually it will remain just a browser but one that will be capable of doing a lot within a browser.
Alright, with that out of the way let’s jump right into installing the Chrome OS on Windows Vista VirtualBox.
VirtualBox VirtualBox 3.0.12 for Windows hosts x86/amd64)

Following are the steps involved in the process

Step 1: Click on the “New” icon after running VirtualBox once it is installed

Step 2: Click “Next” on the “New Virtual Machine Wizard”

Step 3: Name the Virutal Machine and select the appropriate Operating System and Version from the drop down

Step 4: Select the amount of memory you’d like to allocate to the Virtual Machine. Not less than 512MB’s and not more than 25% of the Memory available on the machine

Step 5: Select “Boot Hard Disk” checkbox and select “Use existing Hard-Disk” and click on the directory icon next to the drop down men

Step 6: Click on the “Add” button on “Virtual Media Manager” window and brows and select the downloaded and unzipped Chrome OS file.

Step 7: Click on “Select” on the “Virtual Media Manager”

Step 8: Hit “Next” on the “Virtual Hard Drive” window

Step 9: Check the configuration and hit “Finish” to complete the setup

Step 10: Hit “Start” to launch the newly installed Chrome OS

You will see the login screen next. Use a Google account to login to the operating system and browse away using the new Google Chrome OS!
Following are few of the screenshots from the OS. As mentioned earlier, the new OS at this point it is nothign more than a browser and all you can do is browse websites once logged in.

OS performance will be based on the current setup is not recommended as its installed on a minimum hardware configuration.