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Creating a Proxmox or QEMU ChromeOS Flex VM

by goodburb on 12/3/24, 9:38 PM with 20 comments

• by binkHN on 12/3/24, 10:47 PM

  This is great!

  ChromeOS Flex doesn't get enough credit. While I recently migrated from Windows to Linux on my production machine, ChromeOS Flex is my OS of choice for a simple Push Here Dummy (PHD) machine. There is zero maintenance from an OS standpoint and the ChromeOS Flex Certified models list allows me to pick from a variety of quality hardware, not just some cheap Chromebook. I have more than one of these lying around the house and I often take one on personal trips as well.

• by aaronius on 12/4/24, 7:50 AM

  In case the author reads this: instead of `losetup` you could have imported the image with `qm disk import VMID path/to/source TARGET_STORAGE` It would then show up as unused disk in the VM config to be further configured :-)

• by moondev on 12/3/24, 11:51 PM

  Has anyone tried gpu passthrough to a ChromeOS flex vm

• by dijit on 12/3/24, 10:11 PM

  At the risk of sounding negative… Is there a value to do this?

  I mean, its interesting that you can, but I’m working the opposite way, I run Proxmox so that I can run ChromeOS as my main working OS.