Linux desktop and server virtualization configuration on VMware is a hot topic of networking and cloud computing. You have installed a Linux on your virtualized lab but not work perfectly. After installing Linux on a VMware, you need to install VMware tools correctly to integrate virtual machine with the host system. VMware tools are a suite of utilities that enhance the performance of the virtual machines guest operating system and improves the management of the virtual machine. Without VMware Tools installed in your guest operating system, guest performance lacks important functionality.

Installing VMware Tools eliminates or improves these issues:

• Low video resolution.
• Inadequate colour depth.
• Incorrect display of network speed.
• Restricted movement of the mouse.
• Inability to copy and paste and drag-and-drop files.
• Missing sound.
• Provides the ability to take quiesced snapshots of the guest OS.
• Synchronizes the time in the guest operating system with the time on the host.

VMware Tools includes these components:

• The VMware Tools service.
• VMware device drivers.
• The VMware user process.
• VMware Tools control panel.

Read more about VMware Tools features and functionalities on overview of VMware tools.

Install VMware Tools Correctly on Ubuntu Linux

The steps to install VMware Tools vary depending on the VMware product and the guest operating system you have installed. In this post, we are going to install VMware tools correctly on Linux Ubuntu using VMware workstation. The host system is a Windows 10.

1. Right-click the Ubuntu virtual machine on VMware workstation then click Install VMware Tools to mount the VMware tools to DVD Rom.

2. Open the DVD on the Ubuntu sidebar and copy the VMware-tools-distrib from inside the VMwareTools***tar.gz compressed file to the desktop.

3. Now, run the terminal command line and navigate to VMware folder on the desktop. Type “cd Desktop” to go to the desktop directory, then type “ls” to see what you have on your desktop. Navigate to VMware tools folder with “cd” (change directory) command.

4. Finally, type the “sudo ./vmware-install.pl -d” command to start VMware tools installation. When the installation has been finished, once restart your system to apply the changes.

5. Check the final reports whether the installation finished successfully or not. If you experience issues when installing VMware Tools, comment us for troubleshooting help.

Additional Information:

The VMware Tools are normally bundled with VMware products as well as security updates when applicable. As of VMware Tools version, customers also have the option to download from My VMware. Two different downloadable archives are presented, one for recent guest Operating System releases and another that covers older, legacy guest operating system versions. VMware Tools are typically forward and backward compatible with several product releases. For more information, see VMware Compatibility Guide.

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In a network where you have Windows and Linux Ubuntu operating system, it is a bit difficult to share file between Ubuntu and Windows. The best way to share file between Ubuntu and Windows, you need to install and configure Samba as a file server in Ubuntu Linux. The Samba server will simply let you share files with Windows and Linux Ubuntu.

1. Installing Samba in Ubuntu

Samba is a free software re-implementation of the SMB/CIFS networking protocol. Samba provides file and print services for various Windows clients and can integrate with a Windows Server domain, either as a Domain Controller (DC) or as a domain member. So in this article, we are using in Per-to-Per network between Windows clients and Linux Ubuntu clients. If you don’t like reading then watch the video tutorials at the end of this post.

1. To install Samba file server in Ubuntu Linux, run the terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T keys to open Linux terminal command-line interface.
2. Now type the “sudo apt-get install Samba” to install Samba file server. Type the password to start the installation.

Remember; your Ubuntu machine must be connected to the internet. Because this apt-get install command will install software from Ubuntu online software repository.

2. Share File Between Ubuntu and Windows

Let’s do how to share a file in Ubuntu through file explorer? Open the File and create a folder in the Home directory. I have created Netdata folder and required to share it.

1. Right-click the Netdata folder and click Local Network Share. Select Share this folder.

To allow modification to files and folder for users, select Allow others to create and delete files in this folder. Also, select Guest access (for people without a user account) to access files from Windows without requiring user and password.

2. Click Add the Permissions automatically to apply the permission to the shared folder.

If you want to set a password for a shared folder, you shout set a user for Samba file server with “sudo smbpasswd -a Shais” command then type the password twice.

Now it asks your user and password when someone wants to access the shared folders. The file-sharing from Ubuntu Linux has completed successfully. Let’s test it from Windows 10 client.

3. Access Shared Folders from Windows 10

You can access the Linux shared folders from Windows 10 using Network section. To simply access the shared folders type the \\IP address\Shared folders.

1. In Windows 10 type \\192.168.0.104\NetData and press enter to open the shared files of Linux Ubuntu.

2. When prompt for network credential, type the user name and password. If you did not set a password for Samba files server, it would not ask the network credentials.

3. It’s all the contents of a shared folder. You can create and delete files or edit the files.

To access the shared files quickly, create a shortcut link to a shared folder in Windows 10.

Right-click on the desktop and click New then click Shortcut.

Type the network address of shared folder in Type the location of the item: and click Next.

Type a name for shortcut related to the contents of the shared folder and click Finish to create the shortcut.

Here is the shortcut link to the NetData shared folder of Ubuntu Linux. Double click to open it from your desktop. You can create a network Map drive also. To create a network map drive, read this article How to Create Map Network Drive In Windows 10 and Server?

Share File between Ubuntu and Windows 10 – Video Tutorials

We hope this Share File between Ubuntu and Windows article helped you to share file between Ubuntu and Windows 10 easily like a pro-Linux user.

Troubleshoot File Sharing Between Ubuntu and Windows

The above article and video are a simple file sharing between Windows 10 and Linux Ubuntu. I didn’t assign a user to Samba file server on Linux. Because of this, a user on Technig Youtube channel asked a good question about sharing files and user permissions.

Asked by Ramsin Eivaz: question if I want a user and password, I assume I have to check only “allow others to create…” and not the guest access. But when I enter the Ubuntu user and password, it is not able to log in!! would you have any suggestions thanks.

Answer: You need to create a user account and add the user to the Sambashare group. Then when you access the folder from Windows clients, you should use that username and password for viewing the shared files and folders.

1. First, try to create a user in Ubuntu with “useradd” command or another command that help you create a user.

The -M parameter will not create a home directory for this user and the -N will not create a group with the same username. The -g parameter just specify the group name.

I have created the username “Ali” and added to “sambashare” group.

2. Let’s set a password for the Samba user with “smbpasswd” command.

3. Now from Windows 10, type this username and password to access the contents of a shared folder.

Finally, thanks for sharing the feedback, issues, and problems. Your comments help us to make articles better.

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Download Linux Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for your desktop. The Ubuntu has been in development for the past six months, during which the community was able to install and test a single development version internally called “Final Beta.” The six-month development cycle of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS has now officially ended, and Canonical prepares for the final, April 21 launch, as originally planned.

On this occasion, we thought it would be a very good idea to give you, guys, a little information on how to prepare for the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) released today. We’ll thus start with those who want to upgrade to the new version from an older one, such as Ubuntu 14.04 LTS or Ubuntu 15.10.

Download Linux Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu is distributed on two types of images described below.

Download Linux Ubuntu 16.04 – Desktop Image 

The desktop image allows you to try Ubuntu without changing your computer at all, and at your option to install it permanently later. This type of image is what most people will want to use. You will need at least 384MiB of RAM to install from this image.

There are two images available, each for a different type of computer:

64-bit PC (AMD64) desktop image

Choose this to take full advantage of computers based on the AMD64 or EM64T architecture (e.g., Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon, Core 2). If you have a non-64-bit processor made by AMD, or if you need full support for 32-bit code, use the i386 images instead.

32-bit PC (i386) desktop image

For almost all PCs. This includes most machines with Intel/AMD/etc type processors and almost all computers that run Microsoft Windows, as well as newer Apple Macintosh systems based on Intel processors. Choose this if you are at all unsure

Ubuntu 16.04 – New Features

Linux Kernel 4.4
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS ships with a modified version of Linux 4.4 kernel. It introduces numerable improvements to system stability, performance, power efficiency, and file system handling, and introduces support for newer Intel and AMD hardware.

• Improved Intel Skylake processor support
• 3D support in the virtual GPU driver
• New driver for Corsair Vengeance K90
• Support for TPM 2.0 chips
• Journaled RAID 5 support

If you decided to install Ubuntu Linux on Hyper-v in Windows 10, try to read the Install Ubuntu on Hyper-v article.

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Remotely access from Windows to Windows is easy done with the Remote desktop protocol. But for two different operating system perform with many ways. In this post I have demonstrated to remote access Windows 10 via Ubuntu Linux and as well from Windows 10 to Ubuntu Linux using xRDP.

For connecting Windows 10 Windows try to read the below article.

• Enable Remote Desktop on Windows 10 and Windows Server

The xRDP is an open-source remote desktop protocol (RDP) server using by Linux operating systems.

How to Remote Access Windows 10 via Ubuntu Linux?

The process you need to apply for remote desktop configuration from Windows 10 to Linux Ubuntu and from Linux Ubtun to Windows 10.

1. Enable remote desktop in Windows 10.
2. Configure remote desktop Firewall extension.
3. Connect remotely from Windows 10 to Ubuntu.
4. Install xRDP on Ubuntu Linux for remote desktop
5. Configure Linux remote desktop.
6. Connect remotely from Linux Ubuntu to Windows 10

Try to enable remote desktop on Windows 10 using the above article and allow it from Windows firewall for the public network.

The Remote desktop on my Windows 10 is enabled and ready to use. The firewall is also allowing it to access the RDP from outside.

1. From Linux Ubuntu press Windows key and search “Remote Desktop” to find and open the Remmina Remote Desktop Client.

2. Enter the IP address of Windows 10 and click Connect. When prompt you about accepting the certificate, click OK. 

3. Type the Windows 10 user name and password then click OK to connect to Windows 10 remotely. Type the user name and password currently, otherwise it will not connect you remotely to Windows 10.

Finally, you have connected to Windows 10 via Linux Ubuntu successfully. Now you can do anything remotely on Windows. From installing, deleting software to make changes and configuring Windows 10 remotely.

OK. We have done the remote access Windows 10 via Ubuntu Linux. Let’s connect remotely from Windows 10 to Ubuntu Linux.

Connect Remotely Ubuntu via Windows 10

First of all try to install xRDP on Linux Ubuntu. Before installing xRDP packages try to update the Ubuntu with “apt-get update” command.

1. While you are login on Ubuntu Linux, press Ctrl+Alt+t to open the Linux Terminal and type “sudo apt-get install xrdp” then press enter. Do it like the below screenshot.

2. Let the xRDP installation process will be finished successfully. When it complete, try to install xfce4 with the “sudo apt-get install xfce4” command.

3. We need to modify the xRDP startup file to make it start automatically. Before editing xRDP startup file, try to create .xsession file in the home directory with below command.

echo xfce4-session >~/.xsession

4. Now the second file we need to edit is the startup file for xRDP, so it will start xfce4 service on startup.

“sudo nano /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh”

5. On the editor add the startxfce4 at the end of the code and press Ctrl+O to save it. When it’s done, once restart the xRDP service with “sudo service xrdp restart” command.

6. From Windows 10, type “mstsc” on run and press enter to open remote desktop protocol. Then type the IP address of Ubuntu Linux and click Connect.

Finally, type user name and password of Ubuntu Linux to connect it remotely from Windows 10…

This is just a simple way to connect remotely from Windows 10 to Linux and Linux to Windows 10. There is more option that helps you do the remote desktop easily. But I have tested this on xRDP and Windows 10 remote desktop.

If you have any question, just let us know from the comment section.

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In this article, I’m going to simply create and network Ubuntu and Windows 10. However, we wrote about how to share files between Ubuntu and Windows 10. So get ready to create a network using Windows 10 and Ubuntu desktop.

For Linux users, who don’t know the Windows 10 installation, read the bellow article, as well as Windows users that have problem with Ubuntu installation on their system.

• How to Install Ubuntu Desktop?
• How to Install Windows?

To dual boot two operating systems, read the install dual boot Linux and Windows article.

Network Ubuntu and Windows 10

Before sharing files and printer between Windows and Ubuntu, you must configure the IP address and permission on Windows and Ubuntu.

Ubuntu Network Configuration

Let’s configure Ubuntu IP address and hostname to connect and reachable through Windows 10.

1. Login to your Ubuntu system. On the desktop click the Gear button to open System Settings.

2. On the System Settings page select Network under Hardware.

The network card has assigned an IP address by DHCP server from Wireless router. If there is not any DHCP server on the network, click Options to assign an IP address manually.

Note: To assign an IP address manually, click Options on network page to open Editing Wired connection window. Now select IPv4 Settings tab and select Manual under Method then click Add button then type the IP address, Netmask and Gateway and click Save to apply the changes.

3. Close the pages and run the Terminal to check the IP configuration and hostname. On the Terminal type “hostname” to display system name and type “ifconfig” to display network configuration.

Everything is good. Now try to configure Windows 10 network.

Windows 10 Network Configuration

Do the same settings for Windows 10 also. Set IP address, check hostname and enable network discovery.

1. On Windows 10 press Windows+R to open run. Now type “ncpa.cpl” to open Network Connections. On the network connections right-click the Ethernet and select Properties.

2. On the Ethernet Properties page, set the IP address manually like the below screenshot if you don’t have a DHCP server. So the Wireless router assigns an IP address for my systems.

3. Open a command prompt to check the Windows 10 IP address and hostname. On the CMD type “hostname” and “ipconfig” to display the IP address and computer name.

4. Open Network and Sharing Center from Control Panel. Select Change Advanced sharing settings from the left side of the network and sharing centre.

5. On Advanced sharing settings, expand All Networks and turn on public file sharing and disable password protection option then click Save Changes.

6. Finally, close the window and test the connectivity by pinging to the Ubuntu system.

Yes, then ping reply successfully. Now the Ubuntu and Windows 10 are connected on the same network. You can share files and printer between these two systems.

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The Linux Ubuntu Desktop comes with everything you need to run as client desktop. Install Ubuntu desktop in your organisation, school, home or enterprise network. All the essential applications, like an office suite, browsers, email and media apps come pre-installed, and thousands more games and applications are available in the Ubuntu software centre.

We are going to install Ubuntu desktop on Hyper-v using Windows 10. It is the best practice to test or using multiple operating systems on a computer. You need to Download Ubuntu Desktop image from Ubuntu website.

Before you Begin:

Before you start to install Ubuntu desktop on Hyper-v, you should know the basic knowledge of Hyper-v. If you are new with Hyper-v, read the following articles.

• Hyper-v Beginner: A Practical Guide to Virtualization: Introduction and Installation of Hyper-v
• Essential Hyper-V Configuration: Creating Virtual Machine and Hyper-v network configuration.
• How to Connect Hyper-v Machines to Internet?

Install Ubuntu Desktop on Hyper-v

Before installing Ubuntu, Install Hyper-v feature on your Windows 10 or Windows Server. Then create a new virtual machine in Hyper-v and start the installation of Ubuntu desktop on Hyper-v virtual machine.

1. From the Hyper-v Manager console run the Ubuntu Linux virtual machine and click the Start to run the virtual machine.

2. On the welcome page select your language and click Install Ubuntu button. The chosen language is going to be your default operating system language. So try to choose the correct language.

3. Click Continue on the preparing to install Ubuntu desktop. Don’t pick the Install this third-party software if they are not required.

4. Select Erase disk and install Ubuntu and click Install Now to begin the installation.

Note: this option will remove the entire disk and create a new partition in order to install the operating system. So be careful when you want to install a dual-boot Windows and Ubuntu Linux installation.

If you need to create more partitions, then choose something else and continue to create more partitions.

5. When you click the Install now button, it prompts that do you write the changes to disk? Click Continue to accept and apply the partition changes.

6. When ask you where are you? Just select your location and click Continue.

7. Choose the language and keyboard layout and click Continue. This language will be the standard language for the keyboard. You can change the keyboard language later also.

8. To create a user account, type your name, computer name, username and password then click Continue to begin the installation.

9. Do nothing, let the Ubuntu installation process will finish successfully. When the installation has completed, then click Restart Now to restart the virtual machine.

10. Now on the login page type the password and login to Ubuntu desktop virtual machine.

Finally, welcome to the Linux Ubuntu desktop as Hyper-v virtual machine in Windows 10.

OK, that’s all about installing Linux Ubuntu Desktop on Hyper-v in Windows 10. If you have any question or suggestion about website, articles, services, please comment us.

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