VMware promotes VMware Player with Chrome OS!

I was doing a quick Bing search for the link to VMware Player for a previous article when I was dumbfounded to see the following link description:

VMware is promoting their product with an unreleased OS ... Chrome OS !?!  When I opened the link, it was quick to see that this was indeed the case.  The first paragraph on the VMware player page says:

VMware Player is the easiest way to run multiple operating systems at the same time on your PC. With its user-friendly interface, VMware Player makes it effortless for anyone to try out Windows 7, Chrome OS or the latest Linux releases, or create isolated virtual machines to safely test new software and surf the Web.

Strangely, however, their Virtual Appliance Marketplace does not seem to list Chrome OS for download.  You can easily download a copy of it ready for use on any VMware product from GDGT.

The interesting thing about this is that VMware has promoted a browser appliance for years.  This preconfigured virtual machine essentially contains the Firefox browser in a stripped-down Linux environment, not at all unlike what Google is doing with Chrome OS.  Perhaps in the future they plan to offer a prebuilt virtual machine of Chrome OS instead of their own offering.

This is an interesting development for an OS that was only fully unveiled as ongoing project a little over a month ago.  Although I can't imagine using an operating system that only contains a browser for my main operating system, I am very interested in what Google will do with Chrome OS.  Apparently VMware is too!

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