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Install Ubuntu in VMware

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Quoting one of e-books How to Install Ubuntu in VMware: Step 1 – Install VMware: I am going to use Ubuntu, a Linux distribution that has an outstanding interface and has windows-like wizards to get the most things done. To install Ubuntu on a Windows machine you...

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How to Install Ubuntu in VMware:

Step 1 – Install VMware:

I am going to use Ubuntu, a Linux distribution that has an outstanding interface and has windows-like

wizards to get the most things done. To install Ubuntu on a Windows machine you have to run a socalled

virtual box in which Ubuntu can run as a kind of machine inside your machine.

To accomplish this, I choose to use VMware player or VMware server, a free software package which

can run virtual machines on your PC.

You can download VMware player/server from their website.

downloads.vmware player

downloads.vmware.server

Step 2 – Download the Ubuntu ISO:

Ubuntu comes in different flavors and every 2 year they launch a so called LTS version that means

that this version will be supported for at least 4 years. I downloaded Ubuntu LTS 10.04 (Long Term

Support) from the Ubuntu website. Please be sure your machine supports 64bit when selecting that

flavor.

Ubuntu.download

Step 3 - Install Ubuntu in VMware player:

Next step is to install Ubuntu on the VMware player.

Note: I do not like prefabricated Ubuntu virtual machines because you never know if someone has

been fooling around with it or what is exactly installed on that machine.

On the net there are different videos which show you how to install Ubuntu on VMware.

Link 1

Link 2

Remember that most of the OS software is collaborating so in this case VMware player recognizes

that you want to install Ubuntu and starts a wizard.

As a user and pass I choose adminuser / adminuser. You can choose whatever name you want, but it

is good to have at least one extra administrator account which you can use to install and administrate

your machine.

Note:

Do not use usernames like [admin] or [root] since these are reserved words and you will end

up reinstalling Ubuntu.

Note:

Ubuntu is case sensitive. It is common sense to use lower cases for usernames and mixed

case for passwords. In this case simply choose the same (‘very not safe’) password as the

username.

Name your virtual machine and set the installation path to the location you prefer.

Specify the amount of disk space you want to use for your Virtual Machine. Make sure you allocate

enough space. I selected 20GB of space.

Next to that, customize the hardware for your needs.

At least take 2GB of memory so your Zarafa and MySQL instances will have enough memory to

perform in a proper way.

For better graphic performance, turn the 3D acceleration on.

Finally a decision has to be made what kind of network IP address is given to this virtual machine.

By default NAT is selected. NAT means that VMWare player will create a network subdomain in which

this VM (Virtual Machine) will reside. VMWare player will translate (NAT) all traffic to this VM from

the internet. Although NAT seems like a good idea since it will use the hosts IP address for traffic, it is

better to bridge the VM to get a ‘real’ IP address from the domain controller (or DHCP server) of your

network.

With NAT this machine would get the IP address from VMWare player (192.168.237.130) and while

bridged the VM will receive an IP address from the networks DHCP server (192.168.178.20). The host,

the machines on which VMWare is installed, also got an IP address from the DHCP server

(192.168.178.17).

Watch:

Make sure you end up with at least these changed settings in relation of the default settings:

Processors = 2 cores

Mem = 2 GB

HD = 20 GB

3D Accelerator = On

Network = Bridged

After the installation finishes (this can take up to half an hour) and the login screen pops up, please login with the following credentials:

User : adminuser

Pass : adminuser

See you in the next lesson

Mr.Mohamed samir™

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