Running a ChromeOS Flex (CloudReady 2.0) Virtual Machine in Proxmox VE

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What is ChromeOS Flex? Try the cloud-first, fast, easy-to-manage, and secure Chrome OS for PCs and Macs. Chrome OS Flex is a free and sustainable way to modernize devices you already own. It’s easy to deploy across your fleet or simply try it to see what a cloud-first OS has to offer. - https://chromeenterprise.google/os/chromeosflex/   Creating the Installation Media PRO TIP: I repeatedly had issues booting the flash drive created by the Chromebook Recovery Utility. I found that the utility downloads ChromeOS Flex to the user's local temp directory (%temp% or %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Temp). Browse through the scoped_dir directories to find the compressed ChromeOS Flex image. I grabbed the file and used Balena Etcher to write it to a flash drive to correct the booting issue      01. Open a Chromium based browser, install the Chromebook Recovery Utility extension    02. In Brave Browser, open a new tab and navigate to https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions    03. Search for Chromebook Recovery    04. Click on Chromebook Recovery Utility    05. Click the Add to Brave button ≫ Click Add Extension to confirm    06. After the extension installs, click the puzzle piece next to the hamburger menu ≫ Click Chromebook Recovery Utility to launch it    07. Inside the Chromebook Recovery Utility click the Get started button    08. Click the Select a model from a list link    09. Select Google Chrome OS Flex from the manufacturer dropdown    10. Select Chrome OS Flex from the product dropdown ≫ Click Continue    11. Select the USB flash device to write ChromeOS Flex to ≫ Click Continue ≫ Click Create now    12. Wait while Chrome OS Flex is written and verified    13. Once the flash drive is setup, remove it and plug it into a USB port on the Proxmox host   Creating the VM    01. Open a web browser and navigate to the ProxMox web UI https://ProxMoxDNSorIP:8006/    02. Click the Create VM button at the top right    03. On the General tab, name the VM ChromeOSFlex and set a VM ID (125 in this example) ≫ click Next    04. On the OS tab select Do not use any media and set the Guest OS Type to Linux and Version to 5.x - 2.6 Kernel ≫ click Next    05. On the System tab click Next    06. On the Hard Disk tab set the Bus/Device to SATA and the Disk size to 16 GiB ≫ click Next    07. On the CPU tab set the number of CPU cores and the Type to host ≫ click Next    08. On the Memory tab set the amount of memory to 4096 MiB ≫ click Next    09. On the Network tab set the Model field to VirtIO (paravirtualized) ≫ click Next � ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es7nkbq0k6w