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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

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  • Chromebook, a laptop, has little to do with Google Cloud. I have edited your tags. Aug 5, 2021 at 16:31
  • That's right, the requested VM but already Aug 5, 2021 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. Aug 6, 2021 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).

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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 Aug 5, 2021 at 18:29

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