# Running ChromiumOS on macOS
The ChromiumOS distribution CloudReady was discontinued some time after Google acquired the company that offered it. The successor is [ChromeOS Flex](https://support.google.com/chromeosflex) but there don't seem to be any official virtual machine images available.
## Downloading the virtual machine image
The CloudReady OVA file mentioned in the [knowledge base article](https://archive.is/eNI3J) is available on the [Wayback Machine](https://web.archive.org/web/20220316155455/https://cloudready-free-downloads.neverware.com/vmware/CloudReady-Home-v83-x64.ova) ([direct download](https://web.archive.org/web/20220316155455im_/https://cloudready-free-downloads.neverware.com/vmware/CloudReady-Home-v83-x64.ova)).
$ sha256sum CloudReady-Home-v83-x64.ova
7e4c7304c4b7363dfd778d3a58765c4d03fcd9fb3a1e5ae97c2582b42e4b66ad CloudReady-Home-v83-x64.ova
The version of the CloudReady OVA is actually fairly dated. The virtual machine image was created using CloudReady 83.4.4 and the last released version seems to be [CloudReady 96.4.6](https://web.archive.org/web/20220318103944/https://www.neverware.com/freedownload), which is available on the [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/cloudready-free-96.4.6-64bit).
## Running ChromiumOS in a virtual machine
> If you'd like to run CloudReady as a VM, you can do so using VMware applications on Linux, Windows and Mac including VMware ESXi, VMware Workstation, VMware Player, and VMware Fusion. We've prepared a CloudReady: Home Edition image as a VMware OVA file to make it easy to import and get started.
> CloudReady will not work with Virtualbox as a host-application due to graphics incompatibilities
https://web.archive.org/web/20190130020129/https://neverware.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001615368
### CloudReady in VirtualBox
CloudReady 83.4.4 ChromiumOS in VirtualBox 6.1.40 on macOS 10.15.7 (hangs on boot screen, see above)
### CloudReady in VMware Fusion
On macOS Catalina download and install [VMware Fusion 12.1.2](https://download3.vmware.com/software/fusion/file/VMware-Fusion-12.1.2-17964953.dmg) and *ahem* find a personal license key [somewhere](https://gist.github.com/williamgh2019/30a61b3c22efce3038fec5358b65448b).
CloudReady 83.4.4 in VMware Fusion Player 12.1.2 on macOS 10.15.7 (seems to work fine)
