Click on Continue to proceed and you’ll see what I mean about the process being streamlined by the VMWare team: Simply drag it into this window and it’ll automatically go to the next step:
Now you can see why it’s handy to know where the icon for the ISO file is on your file system.
Lots of options, but you just downloaded that ISO image of Ubuntu Linux, so you can use the default (shown on the left) of “Install from disc or image” by simply clicking Continue.ĭrag and drop. You’ll want to choose File > New to get this window to pop up: Now switch to VMWare Fusion and launch the program. You’re done with that part of the process. Once it’s downloaded, you’ll have a file with an unusual icon, an “ISO” (which name comes from the ISO 9660 standard for DVD images): It’s a decent size file at 1.5GB, so I recommend you find a fast connection before you begin the process:
Setup vmware fusion linux Pc#
I chose 32-bit PC (386) desktop image and clicked. The main difference is that 64-bit lets you access more than 4GB of RAM. The only real question you need to ask is 32-bit or 64-bit, and the answer for the vast majority of people, whether running in a VM or otherwise, is 32-bit. Ubuntu makes six distributions available, and it’s confusing which is which. You’ll be presented with a number of options: To start, grab an “ISO” (one disk) distro of Ubuntu Linux from their Web site. Let me show you, step by step, as I recently needed to create a new VM for Ubuntu 16.x.
Setup vmware fusion linux install#
Which isn’t to say that you can’t use Boot Camp to create a dual boot Mac system too if you really want the best performance: You just reboot and pick which OS to run each time, easy enough.įurther, since you’ve already identified VMWare Fusion as your virtualization platform of choice for your MacOS X system, you’ll be glad to know that it can recognize and streamline the Linux install process. Both VMWare Fusion and Parallels are quite capable of running Ubuntu Linux or just about any other Linux distro and since Linux isn’t as resource intensive as Microsoft Windows, the virtual machines tend to run quite snappy regardless of configuration.
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