chromeos running window vm with virt-manager on debian 11.1

Make sure you are running chromeos 94 or higher

Open chrome://flags and change

"Scheduler Configuration"

"Debian version for new Crostini containers"

delete your linux installation and create a new one, and verify is running debian 11.1

Install the following packages.

sudo apt install libvirt-clients libvirt-daemon-system bridge-utils virtinst libvirt-daemon nano -y

sudo apt install gnome-boxes

sudo apt install virt-manager

Download windows 10 iso image

Chromeos containers and vms - Ubuntu, Debian

VM commands - basic gentoo VM compiled by google to be small and fast

vsh dev - get a console for that vm
vmc start dev - also gets you a console and starts a vm
vmc stop dev - stop a vm (does not do much)
vmc destroy dev - (only works sometimes)
vmc list
vmc container

Inside the VM - in a vm you can create multiple containers

run_container.sh --container_name=devCon --user=lafaspot

lxc list - list all VMs
lxc image list - list all VM images on the box

Create a debian stable vm, using chromeos utility shell file, that provides better integration with chromeos.

run_container.sh --container_name=devCon --user=USERID

Ubuntu setup

lxc image copy ubuntu:18.10 local: --alias ubuntu1810
lxc launch ubuntu1810 cosmic
lxc exec cosmic -- bash

Goto to my github project to setup chromeos integration with your new ubuntu container

https://github.com/lafaspot/chromeOSUbuntu

Ubuntu 10.4 Lucid on a Lenovo Q150

The Lenovo Q150 comes Atom D510 and the nvidia Ion gfx, 2GB of ram and a 250 GB HD.

I decided to install the 32 bit version of Ubuntu Lucid since flash is more stable under 32 bit linux. I also installed:

• ubuntu tweak
• xbmc
• miro
• minitube (youtube player, faster than flash)
• huludesktop
• boxee
• skype
• cooliris

Added this repository to enabled sound thru HDMI port
I upgraded upgrade alsa packages to 1.0.23 and kernel to 2.6.35-6-generic and the nvidia drivers 256.35, using the following repositories:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ricotz/unstable/ubuntu lucid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ricotz/unstable/ubuntu lucid main

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu lucid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates/ubuntu lucid main

After the kernel, nvidia and alsa update and a reboot, start alsamixer and unmute the S/PDIF devices on the HDA NVidia sound card.


Status with lucid out of the box:
- Basic installation from a USB key works fine.
- VGA and sound out, works fine.
- Little USB keyboard/mouse works fine.
- Dual boot with Windows 7 works fine.
- HDMI out works great, but HDMI sound does not.
- Video acceleration works great for Miro, mplayer, minitube, with nvidia drivers from lucid.

Problems I found:
- Ethernet seems to work but sometimes the Ethernet card driver does not deteced the cable, sometimed a power off cycle to fixes this.
- HDMI sounds does not work with the latest Nvidia drivers from their web site. It requires a new kernel and and the latest alsa drivers to be detected. (See my other post on ubuntu 10.10 where the HDMI sound is working)
- Flash video acceleration does not work as well as in windows, it uses 100% of all CPUs, hulu, boxee, cooliris, youtube for full-screen, you can play it without full screen, but youtube 1080p is slow even for regular size, youtube 720p works.

ForUbuntu 10.10 Maverick Alpha (see my blog post on Ubuntu 10.10 and the Q150)

Windows 7 note:
- Flash acceleration is not enough to run 1080p even on windows 7, but flash seems to use less CPU usage on windows 7 compared to lucid or maverick. Hulu, Boxee, Hulu Desktop, Amazon, Youtube video all have problems on windows, dropping frames and some times affecting sound quality when in fullscreen at 1080p.
- HDMI sound works fine on windows.
- Wireless works out of the box.

- I had to install new drivers for ethernet to work.