Ionic run browser fails

Hello everyone,

I’ve setup a server running my Ionic2 application and I’m trying to make it accessible from outside the VM via browser.
This is a barebones server with no GUI and no anything aside from the bare requirements to run Ionic.

However, I’m trying to run the following command, that keeps failing because I don’t have Chrome installed:

ionic run browser --address 10.1.40.206 --port 8100
but this will always fail, and worse than that, the output is nothing like the expected:

Running 'run:before' gulp task before run
[18:40:12] Starting 'clean'...
[18:40:12] Finished 'clean' after 104 ms
[18:40:12] Starting 'build'...
[18:40:12] Starting 'sass'...
[18:40:12] Starting 'html'...
[18:40:12] Starting 'fonts'...
[18:40:12] Starting 'scripts'...
[18:40:13] Finished 'scripts' after 194 ms
[18:40:13] Finished 'fonts' after 227 ms
[18:40:13] Finished 'html' after 268 ms
[18:40:17] Finished 'sass' after 4.47 s
[18:40:42] Finished 'build' after 30 s
[18:40:42] Starting 'run:before'...
[18:40:42] Finished 'run:before' after 10 μs


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Running command: /home/mymachine/myproject-ionic/hooks/after_prepare/010_add_platform_class.js /home/mymachine/myproject-ionic


add to body class: platform-browser

Running command: /home/mymachine/myproject-ionic/hooks/after_prepare/020_remove_sass_from_platforms.js /home/mymachine/myproject-ionic


Running command: /home/mymachine/myproject-ionic/platforms/browser/cordova/build


Cleaning Browser project

Running command: /home/mymachine/myproject-ionic/platforms/browser/cordova/run --nobuild


Static file server running @ http://localhost:8000/index.html
CTRL + C to shut down

Error executing "google-chrome --user-data-dir=/tmp/temp_chrome_user_data_dir_for_cordova http://localhost:8000/index.html": /bin/sh: 1: google-chrome: not found

Notice how it tries to bind to localhost:8000 regardless of whatever I’m passing it.
How can I solve this?

Best Regards,
Celso Santos

So, am I the only one experiencing this issue?

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