Today, of course, Microsoft loves Linux. In fact, Microsoft makes it super easy to deploy an Ubuntu virtual machine (VM) on Hyper-V. In this article, I will show you how it's done. In the Windows ...

To run Ubuntu in a VMware virtual machine, you need a computer that supports virtualization, the latest version of VMware Workstation Player, a four-core processor, 4GB to 8GB of RAM, and at least ...

Hyper-V's Quick Create gallery, which can build a new virtual machine in just a few clicks, includes not one but three separate Ubuntu images, including the new Ubuntu 20.04 version. Best of all ...

Also: Windows 10 tip: Repair your Windows 10 installation Setting up the Ubuntu VM is easy, but there are a few tricks that will help you avoid frustration. Follow along with me (and remember ...

I'm trying to setup a new 16.04/LTS Ubuntu VM on a Hyper-V 2012R2 server. MS has a best-practices guide for Linux on Hyper-V. One thing they specify is that ext4 should be used if you're using a ...

I have an Ubuntu 14.04 server edition virtual machine installed under vSphere 5.5.The physical server is hosted with Online.net. The IP of the physical server is 195.154.xxx.yyy. The failover IP I ...

If the VM fails, I can restore it from a snapshot rather than rebuilding an entire installation. Also, when I need to update Ubuntu, I can simply revert to a previously saved state if something ...

We’ve discussed the benefits of creating a Windows VM with Hyper-V, but it doesn’t stop there. You can create an Ubuntu ...

This post is an update to the original, with all-new instructions but still using the same framework -- Oracle VM VirtualBox, which is an open source virtualization environment, and Ubuntu Linux.