Chrome OS Could Be Getting Containers for Running Linux VMs (zdnet.com)

Chromebook users may soon have a simpler way to run their favorite Linux distribution and applications on Google's Chrome OS hardware. From a report: As spotted by Chrome Unboxed, there's a newly merged commit in Chromium Gerrit describing a "new device policy to allow Linux VMs on Chrome OS." A related entry suggests support could come with Chrome OS version 66, which is due out in stable release around April 24, meaning Google might announce it at its annual IO developer conference, which starts on May 8. Developers can already use a tool called Crouton to install and run Linux on Chrome OS, but there is a security trade-off because Chrome OS needs to be switched to developer mode to use it. There's also a Crouton extension called Xiwi to enable using an OS in a browser window on Chrome OS. However, it too requires developer mode to be enabled. A recent commit suggests Chrome developers are working on a project called Crostini that may solve the developer mode problem by allowing Linux VMs to run inside a container.

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I'd rather do the reverse.

[Mal-2]

I'd rather flash the firmware and then install Cloud Ready, Windows, and GalliumOS. Or at least I would if I cared that much about CrOS. My C720 practically always runs Windows 10, booting into GalliumOS only when I need to unfuck something Windows won't let me unfuck.

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[Anonymous Coward]

And better yet, containers and VMs are two ENTIRELY DIFFERENT CONCEPTS.
 
Docker: LXI Containers
VirtualBox: Hardware Virtualization
 
These are NOT INTERCHANGEABLE. They may be used as substitutes for each other or in conjunction with each other, but the connotations here are WRONG. Obviously, the "editors" here are too busy blaming things on Russia and Pai to bother checking articles and summaries. Now that I have gone back and reread the summary, I noticed that msmash wrote this which means that she is purely ignorant. Sad.