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The default is fine. We do this under Settings, Displays, then Resolution.
Enter the following to access the files you unzipped before: cd. Then create a new for the virtual machine and location to store it. You can now experience a fully working Ubuntu inside VMware Workstation.
Download Ubuntu Desktop - Adding a serial port to the virtual machine If you plan to use a serial terminal application, a serial port must be added to the virtual machine. The installation is now complete.
It has been left here in case it can help someone, but it will not be maintained and will eventually move out of date. If you choose to use a Virtual Machine to host your development version of Linux on a PC, the VM provider will provide up to date information that is better and more complete than what we've provided here. Introduction This guide demonstrates how to get a virtual Ubuntu Linux machine running with VMware under Windows 7. Please use only the 32-bit Ubuntu 14. There are SDK scripts that will be checking for this release identity. The instructions here are for setting up a 40G virtual machine. The entire 40G is not taken at once, but as the machine is used and software is installed, the machine can grow and take up as much as 40G. Download the Ubuntu 14. Select PC Intel x86 desktop CD under the Desktop CD section. Click download and the follow instructions to download and save the ISO image somewhere. Remember where you save this - you will need the ISO soon! Download VMware and install Get VMware from: Vmware Player is a free download from the website and enables the user to create an entire virtual machine from scratch using just the ISO image downloaded from Ubuntu. It is necessary to sign up for an account at VMware in order to get to the download areas. As of Feburary, 2015, v7. Create a New Virtual Machine with VMware Before starting a new installation it is assumed that the Windows host has a proper internet connection to a DHCP server and that the Windows host has enough hard drive space for the new virtual machine. The following steps are performed with VMware 7. The defaults are fine here. This means that it will take up 40G on the Windows host. Make sure that the Windows host has at least this much before proceeding. It is also a good practice to tell VMware to split the virtual disk into 2G files. This will makes the image easier to copy and transport if necessary. The machine name will now be listed under the home page of VMware. It is necessary to modify some machine settings before playing the machine for the first time. Adding a serial port to the virtual machine If you plan to use a serial terminal application, a serial port must be added to the virtual machine. This port must be a physical serial port which exists on the host PC. Since this is a physical port on the host PC, it cannot be used by the host PC and the virtual machine at the same time. When the virtual machine is started, the serial port will be unavailable for use by the host PC. If the serial port is being used at the time that the virtual machine is started, the virtual machine will not be able to access the serial port after it is booted up. So if you want the virtual machine to gain control of the physical serial port of the host PC, there can not be any application like hyperterminal or teraterm running on the host PC at the time that the virtual machine is started. Further instructions for using the serial port with minicom inside of Ubuntu are. Minicom is the preferred application for use with the Sitara SDK. And the installation and setup of minicom is done automattically by the Sitara SDK installer. Since this is the first time starting the machine and the Ubuntu ISO image is in the virtual CD drive, the Ubuntu OS will install itself in the virtual machine. Click through the Ubuntu installation, making the appropriate choices as you go. This will help with SDK installation scripts. The full installation will take 20-30 minutes. When it completes the machine will reboot. The machine will now prompt for the username and password that you created during the installation. After the machine reboots into Ubuntu it is helpful to take the Ubuntu ISO out of the virtual CD drive. The actual drive letter can be selected from the drop down list. Install VMware Tools VMware tools is a very useful addition to VMware. It allows you to resize the VMware screen ,cut-and-paste of text and drag and drop files from the Ubuntu machine to and from the Windows host. This drive will show up on the Ubuntu desktop as if it were a disk in a DVD drive. There will be a single tarball on the drive named VMwareTools-9. You will see that a vmware-tools-distrib folder was created and a file name vmware-install. The Perl script must be executed as a super-user. When prompted for a password, enter the password for the user account. Select all of defaults during installation of VMware Tools. An example is shown below. This can be found under the Applications menu in Ubuntu. Type pwd in this terminal. This should return information about the network connection. Under eth0 the IP address should be similar but not the same as the IP address owned by the Windows host. When a USB card reader with an SD card is inserted into the USB slot of the host machine, the virtual machine will automatically detect the drive and mount partitions from the SD card, making the card available to Linux running in the virtual machine. If this does not happen automatically i. From this sub-menu it is possible to connect or disconnect the USB card reader.
But you can change those display settings according to your needs under this section. Note: If you are trying to install Ubuntu 64-bit version, I would recommend you dedicate at least 2GB RAM, otherwise you may not get a good smooth experience. You can switch between some Operating System frequently while you are using that Operating System in VMware Workstation. Ours only took up 3. Click VM and then Unity Mode in the VMware Player Menu. It ran hideously slowly, to the point of being unusable. Tweaking Virtual Machine settings From the main screen of VMWare Player, select the VM you need to edit and click ubuntu iso for vmware button 'Edit virtual machne settings' at the bottom of the screen as shown in the image above. Five or Ten minutes should be enough for it to complete, depending on the processing power of the computer you are using to run VMware on. So I decided to create a new one with twice the space — 16GB. Name your VM Select a datastore Choose the Virtual Machine Hardware Version.
