How to install ubuntu 22.04 version on VMware workstation player on your windows 11
Hey guys in this article i'm going to show you How you can install ubuntu 22.04 ltx version on VMware workstation player on your windows 11 operating system so for those of you who don't know what is VMware workstation player VMware workstation player is a tool using which you can install any other operating system virtually on your host operating system so for example in this case windows 11 operating system is our host operating system and we want to install ubuntu operating system
virtually using VMware workstation player so
i'm assuming that you have already installed VMware workstation player on your
windows 11 operating system if you don't know how to install VMware workstation
player i will put the link of the article in the description where i have
explained how you can install VMware workstation players so once you have
VMware workstation player it's going to look like this now the other thing
which we need is ubuntu 22.04 iso file so for that you can open your favorite
browser and search for ubuntu and the first link which will appear here will be
from ubuntu.com so i'm going to just click on this link and then under
downloads i can see this green button under ubuntu desktop which says 22.04 lts
version so we are going to click on this uh 22.04
lts button which is going to start the
download of the ubuntu iso file you can see now this file is around 3.4
gigabyte file so it might take some time to download this iso file so i have
already downloaded this iso file so i'm going to cancel this download and i'm
going to show you how this file looks like so after the download you can see
this file looks like this with the name ubuntu 22.04 desktop hyphen amd64.iso
file and now we are going to start the installation of ubuntu on VMware
workstation player so on VMware workstation player you just need to click on
this link which says create a new virtual machine and here we are going to
choose the third option which says i will install the operating system later
and then click on next now here choose the Linux option here and then you can
choose the ubuntu 64-bit version
from here then click on next here you can give
the name to your virtual machine i'm going to name my virtual machine as ubuntu
22.04 64-bit and this will be the location where your virtual machine will be
saved so if you want to change this click on browse and then from here you can
select the directory in which you want to save this virtual machine so i'm
going to save this virtual machine in the ubuntu directory inside my the
directory and then click on next and then you can specify the capacity of the
virtual machine so i generally choose a 100 gb for this so i'm going to just uh
give 100 gb for this virtual machine also i'm going to choose split virtual
disk into multiple files option here and then click on next now here on the
next window you can customize the hardware
so click on customize hardware and then you
have the memory which is 4gb you can increase or decrease the memory depending
on the capacity of your computer i'm going to increase it to 8 gb because my
computer allows this and then i can choose the processors by default two
processors are assigned to my virtual machine i can assign more processors so
for example i am going to just choose four cores for my virtual machine then i
have the option to choose the new cd dvd from here i can provide the path of my
iso file so i'm going to select use iso file image and then click on browse and
then i can browse to the location where my ubuntu iso file is located which i
have downloaded
so i'm going to click on this file and select
this file and then click on open and you can see this file is selected here you
also have some advanced settings here but you don't need to worry about them
you also have a few other settings here but for now we are going to leave
everything as default and then click on close here and then click on finish
what this is going to do is it's going to create this ubuntu 22.04 virtual
machine on your vmware workstation player once this virtual machine is created
you can select this machine and then click on play virtual machine which is
going to start the installation of ubuntu on your vmware workstation player so
here first of all you will see this kind of window here you need to choose try
or install ubuntu which is already selected in my case if it's not selected use
arrow keys to move up and down here and then select try or install ubuntu
and then press enter here which is going to
start the installation of ubuntu so now you can see the installation of ubuntu
is starting so now on the first window you will see the interface like this
here on the left hand side you can choose your favorite language in which you
want to install ubuntu i will choose english here and then click on install
ubuntu now on the next window you can choose the keyboard layout so in
different countries we use different kind of keyboard layouts so for example in
my case i am using the german keyboard layout so i'm going to choose german
here and then i'm going to choose the german option here and then click on
continue and now on the next window you will be asked to choose the updates and
other softwares so i'm
going
to leave it as default which is normal installation and then in other options
i'm going to choose the download update while installing ubuntu and also i'm
going to choose this option which says install third-party software for
graphics and wi-fi hardware and additional media formats now i'm going to click
on continue now on the next window you will see installation type and by
default erase disk and install ubuntu is selected here so you need to leave
it as default don't worry it's not going to
remove anything from your host machine it's just the installation step so if
you are installing ubuntu on actual hardware its going to erase the disk but in
this case its not going to do anything so just leave it as default and then
click on install now and then here you just need to click on continue and now
on the next window you can choose the location where you are located and by
default ubuntu
has chosen my approximate location which is
berlin which is okay for me so i'm going to click on continue and then on the
next window you need to provide the username and the computer name for your
ubuntu operating system so i'm going to provide the code bind here as my
username and my computer name will be a codebind hyphen virtual machine so i
generally just keep the same name as my username here and then pick a username
so i'm going to leave it as c and then here you can provide a strong password
because it's a demonstration so i'm going to choose a very simple password but
you might want to choose a strong password in your case once you're done click
on continue which is going to start the installation of ubuntu on your vmware
workstation player so from this point you just
need to wait for this progress bar to reach to the 100 mark for each and every
tool and once the installation of ubuntu is finished you will be able to see
this kind of message which says installation is complete you need to restart
the computer in order to use the new installation so at this point you just
need to click on the restart now button which is going to restart your ubuntu
operating system so once i click on the restart i will see this kind of window
which says please remove the installation media and then press enter so at this
point you just need to press enter here which is going to restart your ubuntu
22.04
virtual machine and now you can see our ubuntu operating system has been
started here you just need to click on your username and then just give your
password which you have provided at the time of installation i am going to
provide my password and then press enter and now you can see our ubuntu
operating system has been started for the first time when you start a ubuntu
operating system it's going to give you an interface like this where you can
choose the online accounts from here i'm going to skip everything for now so
i'm going to click on skip next and then next and then done and now you can see
our ubuntu operating system has been started
so i'm going to just maximize this window and you can see our ubuntu operating system has been resized according to the desktop size of my windows 11 operating system so from now you can start using your ubuntu operating system virtually using VMware workstation player
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