As you might have already read or seen, gOS is a new lightweight OS meant for cloudbooks & netbooks. This can be downloaded from http://www.thinkgos.com. I came across this while reading about some cloud computing stuff and got some interest to try this new OS. However, I don’t have a spare system to install this OS. So, the next best option is to install it as a virtual machine and of course use Hyper-V. I quickly created a new virtual machine, attached a legacy network adapter and attached the ISO downloaded from gOS website. Here are some screen shots I captured during this whole process.
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- Initial ISO boot
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- gOS ISO boot
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- gOS Desktop
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- gOS Desktop
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- Gmail Login Screen
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- gOS install screen
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- gOS Install Screen
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- gOS Partitioning
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- gOS install progress
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- gOS Logon Prompt
And finally, want to end this with using my own tool, hvs2008UI, to check what Hyper-V lists this VM as and here is the output.
As you see, there is no Guest OS name listed there. That is because we dont have the integration components installed. gOS is based on a standard Linux distribution and I dont think it will be a difficult task to port the Linux integration components in to this. However, gOS is designed for running on a CloudBook or a NetBook but not as a Virtual Machine. Overall, gOS was pretty cool. It had most of the Google Apps / Gadgets I use on a normal PC. There are a whole bunch of other things you can do with Cloud Computing stuff. If not for all that, I recommend a CloudBook / NetBook with gOS as a perfect holiday gift for my/your grandmother. 
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