If at first you don’t succeed; call it version 1.0

No need to keep loading up ‘System Monitor’ to terminate a stalled application / process when you can just as easily, if not quicker, terminate it from the konsole .
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Update after update and I never even thought twice about it but hey! Cleaning up the old kernels is easy but I would recommend manually editing the grub menu.lst rather than allow the removal process to do it .
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An annoying issue but it is easily resolved. When attempting to increase the Virtual disk size I was getting the following error:

Failed to expand the disk '/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines/Image/Image.vmdk': The file already exists (0x270000000c).

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This probably would have been simpler if I wasn’t up til 4am trying to finish it but I guess when your keen to get your hands on something new you just go for it! Anyway, this is the simplest way to get a compiled version of Chromium up and running. Chromium devs are releasing patches and updates almost every hour at the time of writing this so it’s hard to keep up, this way at least you have a stable version to run and mess with. You can get the chromiumos-0.4.22.8 tarball from here.
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To be honest I thought most of these issues with the 2.6.31 would have been ironed out with the next upgrade to VMware but this is definitely not the case as it seems we still have to use the previous 2.01 patch to get it up and running. You can get the patch from here
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