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		inondle on Sept 27, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chrome OS KVM - A component written in Rust Is this a new component for Chrome OS? Would this be a replacement for a project like Crouton or is something like this already being leveraged by that project?

dward on Sept 27, 2017 [–]

Crouton is just a chroot to some linux distro. It doesn't use any sort of virtualization.

corybrown on Sept 27, 2017 | [–]

Could this be a sanctioned way to run linux on a Chromebook w/o dev mode?

inondle on Sept 27, 2017 | | [–]

The README contains commands that seem to require access to the developer-mode shell. Perhaps in the future though.

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