The new Parallels (from March 9) has very neat support for Google’s Chrome OS. Simply go to the menu, select Download Chrome OS:
And the download starts automatically, automatically setting up the VM:
Whick boots to login in less that 5 seconds and goes to the main screen in less than 2 seconds after login on spears:
All in all, Chrome OS is not really that hot, but it can be used as a faster browser appliance, even playing YouTube videos (though a timing problem makes it play them too fast) and it is even starts faster than Firefox natively on my Mac.