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If you are just preparing a virtual machine with the configuration where the operating system will install later, just select “I will install the operating system later” option. If you are using an operating system iso file, please click on the “Browse” button and select the image file. After selection of this option, you have to select CD/DVD ROM driver. If you are going to install through operating system CD/DVD disc, you should select “Installer disc”.

I will install the operating system later.

As I am using VMware workstation version 12 Pro, so I configured my virtual machine compatibilities according to configured in this version and choose “Workstation 12.0” for Hardware compatibility.Īfter selection of hardware compatibility, new window will appear for installation media selection, where three options are available: In this window, you can choose hardware compatibility for your virtual machine. I choose here Custom setup, so can show you all option to configure in VMware. There are two option you will get when start preparing You will get the first screen in workstation like below image, and here click on “ Create a New Virtual Machine” button. Open VMware workstation application to start the Installation of Ubuntu operating system. PREREQUISITES – UBUNTU 16.04 INSTALLATIONĪny application from above is enough for a virtual environment, I am going to use here VMware Workstation, but the overall process of installation is the same for all virtual environment package.

You can use any other virtual environment also like Virtualbox, VMware Player, KVM, etc. Here, in this article, I am going to explain “How to install Ubuntu 16.04 in VMware workstation?”. Or you can keep the previous virtual machine for your experiment to learn to troubleshoot the problem and parallelly you can run new vm to move your learning ahead.

So, I am suggesting you to at learning time use a virtual environment to configure any Linux and use if any mistake will happen you need to reinstall the only virtual machine, not the system. These days most of the IT professionals learning Linux, as their work environment around Linux based open source and free operating system.Īs per my experience, when you are learning anything and for a silly mistake, you are going to format the entire system and reinstall, again and again, the learning period going to be very frustrating and bored. Ubuntu is one of the popular Linux operating systems. Most of the servers are using the Linux Operating System, and personal system also start using various Linux distribution. Nowadays Linux operating system’s popularity is increasing.