
The free version is available for non-commercial, personal and home use. Organizations use Workstation Player to deliver managed corporate desktops, while students and educators use it for learning and training. When the installation is done, you have a fully functional Linux Ubuntu OS in a Windows OS environment. VMware Workstation Player is an ideal utility for running a single virtual machine on a Windows or Linux PC. 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 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.

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.
