Installing Ubuntu 18.04 on VMware Virtual Machine#
1. Ubuntu Download Link#
Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
Download ubuntu-18.04.6-desktop-amd64.iso Ubuntu 18.04 64-bit Desktop Edition
2. Installing Ubuntu System#
Enter the virtual machine, select Chinese (Simplified), and then install Ubuntu
Select the keyboard layout as Chinese and click Continue
For the next two options, the first one is Normal installation, which will install some pre-installed software that we can uninstall if we don't need them. The second option is Minimal installation, which will only install the basic tools needed for the system. Check both options. The first one is to download updates during the installation of Ubuntu, and the second one is to install third-party software for graphics, wireless hardware, and other media formats. I choose Normal installation here, but if you want a clean system, you can choose Minimal installation. Click Continue
Select Erase disk and install Ubuntu, and click Install Now
Write the changes to disks and continue
Select the region as Shanghai
Set the username and password for Ubuntu. Here, I set the password as 1 for easy remembering. Continue
Wait for the installation to complete
Installation completed. Restart the virtual machine
Restart successful. Test the network connection
Remove the ISO image to display the virtual machine normally
In the settings, find Display and modify the resolution that suits your computer
(Settings -> Display -> Resolution)
At this point, the installation of Ubuntu is complete. It is recommended to create a snapshot to save the current state.
3. Installing open-vm-tools#
To enable file transfer between the Windows 10 computer and the virtual machine, you need to install the VM tools.
Step 1: Vmware Tools is no longer recommended by the official. It is recommended to use the open-source open-vm-tools. So I installed this:
sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools
Step 2 (key step), it is speculated that some dependency packages are installed:
sudo apt-get install open-vm*
Then
shutdown -r now
4. Creating a Virtual Machine Snapshot#
In the virtual machine -> Snapshot -> Take Snapshot, create a snapshot
Add a name and description
You can find the snapshot we created in the previous step
At this point, the Ubuntu system installation is complete.