We will change this to use the Store virtual disk as a single file. The default is set to split the virtual disk into multiple files. The next option in this step asks if you would like to store the virtual disk as a single file, or split the virtual disk into multiple files. We are going to leave the default for this field in this example. The default for the maximum disk size is 20 Gigabytes. The next task is to specify disk capacity. You can fill out the Virtual machine name field, and note the location of where the VM will be stored on the host operating system. In this step, the new virtual machine wizard asks you to name the virtual machine. You can personalize Linux here with a full name, user name, and password. Click next.Īt this point, we are presented with the Easy Install Information. It also notes that the wizard will make use of Easy Install. Select the fileĪt this point we are installing a guest operating system, and the new virtual machine wizard has detected that we have an Ubuntu 64-bit OS version 16.04. We will choose Typical the recommended approach to create a virtual machine in a few easy steps.ģ. You can to this by clicking File->New Virtual Machine or by holding ctrl + n at the same time. Download ubuntu-16.04-desktop-amd64 from

This will be a great way to test out Ubuntu Desktop, as well as learn more about creating virtual machines in VMware.

Once we get our file, we will cover all of the steps needed to run a fully virtualized version of the Ubuntu Desktop 64 Bit operating system in VMware. First, we need an ISO file to work with, and for this, we can go right to the official Ubuntu website to get what we need. Now that we’ve talked about how awesome VMware Workstation is, let’s build our first virtual machine using an ISO file.

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