The recovery system was real choppy in performance. While the process says it only takes about 20 minutes, on my end it took around 40.
Once the system booted up (which took a good five minutes) all I needed to do was choose "Install Cloudready" from the user menu in Chromium OS. This forced Virtualbox to boot from the boot disk clone. So I did the next best thing I created my boot disk as the primary master, and the empty VDI as the primary slave (which kinda made me feel like I was back in 1993). I couldn't figure out how to "hack" the boot order of the EFI without getting dumped to the EFI shell (I sure wasn't going to use that!). The unpack and recovery disk process take about 20 minutes, depending on the relative speed of the computer. Unfortunately, there's just not a good way around using a usb drive, as the recovery utility can only "see" flash drives.
The 64-bit image file comes as a zip and you'll also need to install the Chromebook Recovery Utility (this is the same extension for both macOS and Windows). I found that NeverWare's CloudReady software was a possible solution – it's based on the Chromium OS source – and once I filtered through all the license options, I figured out their Home Edition was the best solution for what I needed given it's cost (FREE!) and it's personal license (I don't need this for business, yet). I also remember that Hexxah used to host Chromium OS builds on his blog, but it appears that he no longer maintains this information, nor does he provide builds. The download size of the repo itself is massive – I gave up around 1.9GB.
but after trying to figure out what repo tools I needed, I assumed there must be a better (easier) option, since I really didn't desire to change the code, just experiment with the operating system. I started out looking at the Chromium OS code repo online, as I thought I would build and compile the source myself. While I'm able to use the OpenVPN client on my Mac computer, I wasn't really sure how this work on a Chrome OS based system, although I assumed this is something Google wants their cloud clients to be able to do. Currently, they use the OpenVPN "appliance" as one of the Google Compute Engine instances. Part of my desire for figuring out how to setup a virtual machine is that one of my clients has a very tightly controlled VPN to access and edit the files on their file system.
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