The player is for non-commercial use mainly for educators and students for learning and training. The Pro version of VMWare Workstation is not free, but there is a free version of VMWare called VMWare Workstation Player, which is having most of the features for your purpose. The VMWare Workstation can install on Linux and Windows PC. Using VMWare Workstation, we can virtually run different versions of Linux and Windows. VMWare Workstation: VMWare is a globally-leading provider of virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions. There are different virtual machine software are available in the market, two of the popular software are The VM resources of the guest OS should be friendlier with the host OS.

If there is a conflict, the host OS can go down and the PC can crash. Make sure the guest OS will not conflict with host OS for the computing resource. For example, in a VM software, one can choose, processor count, RAM size, Hard disk size, Graphics memory, USB devices, etc. Using VM software, one can create a VM with a custom configuration. The VM Software needs a host operating system like Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX, and you can share the computing resource with the virtual/guest operating system. So, we can install an OS in VM as we install it in the actual PC. The OS that we are going to install in a VM will detect it as a physical computer. Simply, VM software is one that can emulate a physical computer system. You can see the installation of Ubuntu in VMWare and VirtualBox after this section. Installing Ubuntu in Virtual Machine( VMWare/VirtualBox):īefore getting started, let me first introduce: What is a virtual machine, Which is the best VM Software, and Which VM Software should choose for installing R.O.S. 3 Installing Ubuntu in real PC using USB bootġ.

Installing Ubuntu in Virtual Machine( VMWare/VirtualBox):

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