Guest VMWare
Create a new Virtual Machine in VMWare Server Administration Tool
- Open VM console
- Create Virtual Machine:
- Give a name
- Datastore: standard
- Guest OS: Linux operating system / Ubuntu Linux (64-bit)
- Memory size: 128MB
- #CPU: 1
- Create a new virtual disk: 4GB , Policies>> Optimize for performance
- Add a Network Adapter (bridged)
- Use an ISO image: ubuntu-10.04-server-adm64.iso
- Don't add a floppy drive
- Don't add a USB controller
- Finish
Install Ubuntu
Open the VM Console and startup the machine to setup Ubuntu.
- Choose language: English
- Press F4 for the installation modes
- Select "Instal a minimal virtual machine"
- Select "Install Ubuntu Server"
- Choose language: English
- Choose Region: other // Europe // France
- Choose detect keyboard layout and follow instructions with keys to press
- The initial settings will install
- Enter hostname
- Confirm timezone
- Choose Guided - use entire disk partitioning
- Validate writing changes to the filesystem
- The base system will install
- Create the inital user
- Ignore the proxy settings
- Choose to "install security updates automatically"
- Install these packages:
(*) Basic Ubuntu server (maybe not req !) (*) OpenSSH server (*) Virtual Machine host (maybe not req!)
- Reboot server
- Configure network
- Install packages:
apt-get install joe apt-get install VM-TOOLS apt-get install xfce4 apt-get install x11vnc apt-get install ia32-libs
Change Ubuntu Server from DHCP to a Static IP Address
- Open up the /etc/network/interfaces file. For the primary interface, which is usually eth0, you will see these lines:
auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp
Change it to values similar to:
auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.1.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 gateway 192.168.1.1
- Add the DNS settings in the /etc/resolv.conf file. On the line ‘name server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx’ replace the x with the IP of your name server. (You can do ifconfig /all to find out what they are)
- Restart the networking components:
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart