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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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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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