[inondle]

Is this a new component for Chrome OS? Would this be a replacement for a project like Crouton or is something like this already being leveraged by that project?

[dward]

Crouton is just a chroot to some linux distro. It doesn't use any sort of virtualization.

[corybrown]

Could this be a sanctioned way to run linux on a Chromebook w/o dev mode?

[inondle]

The README contains commands that seem to require access to the developer-mode shell. Perhaps in the future though.