Most of the servers are using the Linux Operating System, and personal system also start using various Linux distribution. Ubuntu is one of the popular Linux operating systems. These days most of the IT professionals learning Linux, as their work environment around Linux based open source and free operating system. As per my experience, when you are learning anything and for a silly mistake, you are going to format the entire system and reinstall, again and again, the learning period going to be very frustrating and bored. So, I am suggesting you to at learning time use a virtual environment to configure any Linux and use if any mistake will happen you need to reinstall the only virtual machine, not the system. Or you can keep the previous virtual machine for your experiment to learn to troubleshoot the problem and parallelly you can run new vm to move your learning ahead. To learn more about Linux Operating system please visit https://linuxconcept.com .

1. Ubuntu Linux on Vmware Workstation

2. Vmware Workstation
Vmware Workstation is the leading platform for virtualization
management and offers a wide range of features and capabilities
to help organizations transition to cloud computing and improve
its business.
VMware Workstation has been developed by VMware, Inc. in San
Francisco, California since 2004. It runs on Microsoft Windows
operating systems and can be downloaded for free.

3. Ubuntu Linux
Ubuntu Linux is a Linux distribution that is an open source software
operating system. The operating system is based on Unix and
distributed free of charge to the general public. It has been in
development since 2004 and was released in 2006.
Ubuntu Linux has a large community of developers, with contributions
from around the world, who are committed to producing new versions
of this popular operating system on a regular basis.

4. Vmware Workstation
Configuration

5. Virtual Machine
Creating NewVirtual Machine:
This is the first screen you will get when open VMware Workstation application.
You need to click on “Create a New Virtual Machine” to start the process of
preparing a new virtual machine.

6. Virtual Machine
VM ConfigurationType:
Now, you will get the new window to choose
an option to create a virtual machine with
“Typical” and “Custom.” Here I choose
“Custom” so that I can show you all
configuration to build a virtual machine.

7. Virtual Machine
VM Hardware Compatibility:
This is the window, where we choose the
Hardware compatibility version for the
virtual machine. As I am using VMware
Workstation 12 Pro, I select “Workstation
12.0” and click on “Next” button for further
process.

8. Virtual Machine
VM Installation media:
The option “Installer disc” choose when you are going to install the operating system in
this virtual machine using an installation disk.
Another option “Installer disc image file (iso)” choose when you use an operating
system’s image file (iso) to install an operating system in the virtual machine.
And the last option “I will install the operating system later” we choose when we have
not planned to install an operating system and to prepare Virtual machine to install an
operating system in the future.
I select here “Installer disc image file,” because I want to install the operating system
using ISO image file, and click on “Browse” button to choose Operating System files.

9. Virtual Machine
VM Installation media:
This new window will appear to browse your
ISO file, I choose here Ubuntu iso file and click
on “open” button to select that file.
After selection of the file it will appear in this
window, and now we can click on the “Next”
button for further process.

10. Virtual Machine
VM Name and Location:
In this screen, we configure the virtual
machine name and file location, after that
click on the “Next” button to go to the next
screen.

11. Virtual Machine
VM CPU Configuration:
This screen of VMware is to configure CPU for
a new virtual machine. Here we can configure
CUP with option Number of processors and
Number of core per processor.

12. Virtual Machine
VM RAM Configuration:
After configuring CPU, it’s time to set RAM
for this virtual machine. In this screen, we can
configure RAM for the new virtual machine.

13. Virtual Machine
VM Network Configuration:
There are multiple options for configuring Networking like below:
• Use bridged networking
• Use network address translation (NAT)
• Use host-only networking
• Do not use a network connection
The first option “Use bridged networking” is used to connect the virtual
machine with a network through bridged and it gets IP directly from the
network device. So after connection your host and guest in the same
network.

14. Virtual Machine
VM Network Configuration:
The second option, “Use network address translation (NAT)” will get NAT
connection through your host network. In this case virtual machine network
connection through host network, where host release an IP for a virtual
machine but your host and guest machine using the same IP for connection.
So virtual machine all network connection through via host network.
The third option, “Use host-only networking” is used to connect the virtual
machine with host only. In this connection virtual machine only connect with
the host machine but not from the internet or wide area network.

15. Virtual Machine
VM Network Configuration:
The last option, “Do not use a network
connection” is used when we don’t want use
networking in the virtual machine.
I choose here “Use bridged networking” to
connect with internet, host and another host
also in the same network.

16. Virtual Machine
VM I/O Controller Configuration:
This new screen to configure I/O controller
types, where also we have three option like
• BusLogic
• LSI Logic
• LSI Logic SAS
As you can see in the below picture
“BusLogic” is not available for 64-bit
Operating System, and I choose Debian 8 64-
bit ISO, so this option is not available for this
virtual machine.

17. Virtual Machine
VM I/O Controller Configuration:
Another option “LSI Logic SAS” is for the disk
when we use from SAS storage, but here I am
not using SAS disk, so this is not the option
for me.
One more option is “LSI Logic” which is for
inbuild disk, and I am using the same disk, so I
choose this option here.

18. Virtual Machine
VM Disk Configuration:
In this new screen, we can choose disk type,
where I select “SCSI” which is also
recommended for vmware virtual machine
too.

19. Virtual Machine
VM Disk Configuration:
In this screen you configure Disk with these options:
• Create a new virtual disk
• Use an existing virtual disk
• Use a physical disk (for advanced users)
The first option “Create a new virtual disk” is used to create a new virtual disk on
your system which will be formatted by the virtual machine and install a new
operating system.
The second option “Use an existing virtual disk” used to using already created
virtual disk file system.This option is useful if we want to use the previously built
virtual machine in the different system or taking backup from the virtual disk, etc.

20. Virtual Machine
VM Disk Configuration:
Third option “Use a physical disk” is for an
advanced user, because using this option we
store the virtual machine in physical disk and
storage will use the direct physical disk.
I select “Create a new virtual disk” as I am
going to create a new virtual disk for this new
virtual machine.

21. Virtual Machine
VM Disk Configuration:
In this window, you can configure a virtual
disk size. I have configured 20 GB for virtual
disk and choose “Store virtual disk as
a single file” to use a single file for the virtual
disk.
I have also not selected “Allocate all disk
space now” to assure disk storage as per
requirement, where it not use all storage from
the beginning and use storage when it is
required.

22. Virtual Machine
VM Configuration:
Now, you will get a virtual machine
configuration summary. Here you can
configure virtual machine’s hardware again if
required by clicking on the “Customize
Hardware” button.

23. Virtual Machine
VM Configuration:
This is the window where you can see all
hardware configuration for a virtual machine.
Here, we can reconfigure any hardware
properties like CPU, RAM, disk, etc.
After reconfiguration or re-customization of
hardware, we can click on the “Close” button
to come to forward for the virtual machine
and click “Finish” button on next screen
to complete virtual machine configuration.

24. Virtual Machine
VM Configuration:
After a completion for virtual machine
configuration you we come to below screen
where a virtual machine is ready to install
with an operating system.
Click on “Power on this virtual machine”
button to start booting and operating system
installation process.

25. Ubuntu Linux
Ubuntu Installation
After starting virtual machine you will get new
window.
This new window showing now our new virtual
machine booting with Ubuntu installation
media and it is ready to install.

26. Ubuntu Linux
Ubuntu Installation – scan installation media
In the next screen, the system starts scanning
for CD-ROM, which is just checking ISO file or
any chosen installation media.

27. Ubuntu Linux
Ubuntu Installation – start installation
Now, we will get the new screen for “Installing
the system” which indicate Ubuntu 16.04
operating system installation on the virtual
machine is started.

28. Ubuntu Linux
Ubuntu Installation – apt package Manager
The next screen will appear for “Configuring
apt”, apt is the application package manager
which is used in Ubuntu operating system.
The system starts configuring apt package
manager, so if any package required for the
operating system it can configure easily.

29. Ubuntu Linux
Ubuntu Installation – install software
Now, we get a new window for “select and
install software”, in this stem all application
required by the operating system is installing
in the virtual machine.

30. Ubuntu Linux
Ubuntu Installation – install GRUB loader
Now, after installation of the operating system
is starts configuring GRUB boot loader for
configuring boot device for the operating
system.

31. Ubuntu Linux
Ubuntu Installation – Finishing installation
GRUB boot configuration is the last installation
process of Ubuntu 16.04 operating system.
After configuring GRUB it finishing the
operating system installation and booting the
virtual machine.

32. Ubuntu Linux
Ubuntu Installation
After a reboot of the virtual machine, we will
get the login window on the screen where we
can log in with the username and password
which we had configured in the beginning of
virtual machine configuration.

33. Ubuntu Linux
Ubuntu Installation
If you have any doubt on the process of Ubuntu installation on virtual
machine using vmware, please refer Linuxconcept’s article at
https://linuxconcept.com/how-to-install-ubuntu-16-04-in-vmware-workstation/

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You
Kumar Satish