Crostini on ChromiumOS and Cloudready

 ---Crostini issues on ChromiumOS and Neverware's Cloudready.---

Cloudready is a ChromiumOS distribution designed to be installed on general hardware to give a ChromeOS experience, albeit lacking the Google Play Store and Google Assistant.

On my own ChromiumOS builds, Crostini (the virtualized debian linux environment one can enable in settings) crostini would fail unless chrome://flags/#crostini-use-dlc was set to disabled. This helps in some circumstances, including Cloudready, however, as of ChromiumOS 92, on top of this issue, the termina (not a misspelling) container fails to launch the virtual machine if there are unmitigated cpu vulnerabilities. Intel 9th gen and older and Ryzen 1st gen and older will be vulnerable without a microcode patch. ChromiumOS does not support microcode updating by default, and so without a BIOS update, one could manually modify the reported vulnerabilities on the command line.

A useful read with instructions on page 3 can be found at https://neverware.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/4405874706579-Linux-Beta-not-working-in-92-3-4-Home-Stable-Channel

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