When the installation is done, you have a fully functional Linux Ubuntu OS in a Windows OS environment. When you press finish the virtual machine starts to install Ubuntu. If you want, use the default selection in all options That way the virtual machine gets its own IP address from the router. To install Ubuntu Linux on VMWare Workstation you just need a physical machine, VMWare Workstation Pro or Player, and Ubuntu Linux ISO image. Install VMware Tool in Ubuntu Server with only a command line interface : Go to Virtual Machine > Install VMware Tools (or VM > Install VMware Tools ). To allow the virtual machine to have its own network and not share with the host computer we select the bridged mode, instead of NAT in the “Network Adapter”. You change this setting in “Processors” on the virtual machine. We have 4 cores on the Host machine but we’ll only use 2 cores on the virtual machine which is enough for us. If you want, use the default selection in all optionsĬhange hardware settings to suit your config. Max HDD size depending on how much space you can spare. Create new virtual machine ny Player->File->New Virtual Machine or just by pressing Ctrl + N. We usually make the virtual hard disk a single file instead of splitting the drive in to several files. To make it simple, We used the name “test” on all selections. Ĭreate a new virtual machine with the ISO file downloaded in step 2.Īs usual during a normal Windows installation, fill in a name, username and password when install. The movie shows how to install Ubuntu, in this case Ubuntu Mate.

Open Vmware and Create a New Virtual machine.

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