Is it possible to play on a Chromebook? (basically an android OS)

Started by DragonBorn

DragonBorn

If it is possible, please help me to help my niece be able to play.

Parabolaralus

I dont think so at least not easily.

I recall reading an article not too long ago regarding google experimenting with "alt os mode" which would allow you to dual boot windows on an Intel (x86) chromebook, but the ARM variants would be limited to chromeos indefinatly. Its still in the works though and im not even sure if you could opt into testing of this, but it would at least let you play.

VMX is disabled by default in the kernel so its not possible to virtualize windows though there is a supposed workaround for this which VMX can be switched on during runtime though that would need to be applied after each reboot and sounded like a huge PITA to me…

What ive done in the past is i would setup a windows pc with remote desktop and just play the realm over RDP on my tablet. It works pretty freaking well as long as youre on the same network, but requires of course a stationary PC which likely you would not be asking this if you had one. I even set this up to work from my office computer at home which i leave running 24/7…it was playable, but nowhere near as smooth.
Challenge 2 here is that only one user can be logged into one machine at a time over RDP unless you have a proper terminal server so in practice youll need two computers…

If anyone else has any ideas im sure he would be all ears.

EDIT because apparently this is now a thing in beta:
https://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover-chromeos

That would probably be the easiest way to get this working though youll likely have to do without music. Audio should be fine, but the midi files not so much.