Word on ARM tablet

Word on ARM tablet

At first sight there is nothing special in the picture, a netbook running MS Word. A more close view and one can observe that the word processor is really appearing inside one Chrome tab. In fact, it is really a tab in Chrome OS running on one Asus Chromebook C100 Flip. It is an inexpensive chromebook mounting an ARM type processor including ~9 hours of battery life. How is it done if at the moment neither wine or virtualbox programs have a stable ARM version?

A client-server scheme showing the software layers needed to run MS Word in this C100 chromebook

The trick is that the chromebook is running crouton behind the scene. This crouton (a Debian chroot in my case) is running a rdp “ssheathed” connection managed by Remmina to a headless virtualbox machine server running the Word of a W7. LAN connections are ok and fluid but WAN connections could be tricky. In this case of slow connections, I prefer running directly x11vnc (also managed by Remmina). There are few program utilities not runnning in ARM processors still there and needing this kind of nested/layered connections.