# skylartaylor/gbos-vm

> Runs a real Googlebook OS image (ARM64, Android 17) in a GPU-accelerated QEMU VM on Apple Silicon Macs, with Chrome working and Vulkan passed through to Metal. Aimed at developers who want to poke at the OS without real hardware.

- Magnitude: 3.8 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 95 total · +6 stars measured 2026-10-09, 15:36–17:13 UTC, ≈ 12 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Hardware, IoT & robotics · Language: Python · License: MIT · Created: 2026-10-07 · Last push: 2026-10-08
- GitHub: https://github.com/skylartaylor/gbos-vm · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/skylartaylor/gbos-vm

## Useful for

- Boot Googlebook OS in a VM on a Mac to explore Android 17
- Test Chrome and WebGL content inside the guest system
- Build the VM from Google's recovery image via install.sh

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-09 (UTC), 15:36–17:13: 89 → 95 stars (+6). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +12 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 2 days old and already has 95 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #190.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @thangman22 (301 followers).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 7
- Issues and pull requests: 8
- Watchers: 0
- Average over the last week: 26 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 5

## Stars per day, last 6 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-04 … 2026-10-09: 0, 0, 0, 12, 54, 6

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #190

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   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/NEORUAA/HyperOS-AVD.md

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-09 17:26 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.