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I am planning to buy a Chromebook and wanted to ask if you can install and test ChromeOS or a derivative in a virtual machine before investing that much money.

I hope I will put my question in the right group and would be very happy to receive an answer ;-)

Kind regards Torsten

John Mahowald
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  • Chromebook, a laptop, has little to do with Google Cloud. I have edited your tags. – John Mahowald Aug 05 '21 at 16:31
  • That's right, the requested VM but already – Torsten Bark Aug 05 '21 at 18:24
  • Your question is about evaluating Chromebook, which does not imply that you need to rent a VM at all, let alone from Google. A good Google cloud question would include what you have built on GCP, and what problem you are having with it. – John Mahowald Aug 06 '21 at 23:05

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Buy the hardware, could be a less expensive model, and evaluate it. Return or sell if not keeping it. Worst case, write off as a loss.

On Server Fault, we assume your organization has the capital to invest in necessary tools.

A virtual machine is not the same as actual hardware, the physical form factor of the latter is important. Yes, VMs based on ChromeOS exist, including several forks (CloudReady, NayuOS, FydeOS).

John Mahowald
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  • Thank you for the fast answer. Yes, test it and maybe give it back is certainly also a possibility ... Greeting Torsten – Torsten Bark Aug 05 '21 at 18:29