InformationMicrosoft's cooperation with Canonical just took a giant leap. Will Cooke from Canonical announced new Hyper-V Quick Create Gallery virtual hard disk with pe-installed Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Using Quick Create, users can set up an Ubuntu Generation 2 virtual machine in just a minute or two.
Will Cooke on Ubuntu Blog on September 17th, 2018:
Today we’re very pleased to announce that an optimised Ubuntu Desktop image is available from the Hyper-V gallery. This will give an optimum experience when running Ubuntu Desktop as a guest on a Windows 10 Pro desktop host. From the Ubuntu Report data we know that a lot of people are using Ubuntu as a virtual machine, and so we want to make that experience as seamless as possible.
The Quick Create Gallery Ubuntu VM uses XRDP upstream to add support for Hyper-V Enhanced Session Mode. Everything is pre-installed, the new Ubuntu VM will allow enhanced mode on first boot.
This tutorial will show how you can set up a Generation 2 Ubuntu VM in a few easy steps.
1.1) In Hyper-V Manager, select Quick Create on Actions pane:
1.2) Select Ubuntu , click Create virtual machine:
1.3) Pre-made virtual hard disk will be downloaded (1.5 GB):
1.4) After the download, the file integrity will be verified and virtual machine created. It will be created using dynamic memory, with 2 GB RAM to start with. Hyper-V sets number of virtual processors automatically, based on what your host hardware allows. Click Edit settings to change settings, or click Connect:
1.5) Accepting default settings, you might be surprised how much of host RAM virtual machine's dynamic memory will consume after a few minutes use. In my case, I had to reduce the max RAM allowed to 4 GB after noticing that when browsing Ten Forums on Ubuntu VM, it suddenly used over 8 GB RAM when nothing else than browser with a few tabs was running.
Before setting lower max RAM, the VM was constantly using close to 8 GB. When left idle, it settled to 7,662 MB, over 7.5 GB, and remained there constantly as long as VM was idle:
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2.1) Start the virtual machine.
2.2) Select OS language, keyboard layout and time zone:
2.3) Set up your user account:
2.4) Setup will take a minute or two. When done, Enhanced Session Mode prompt will be shown. Click Connect:
2.5) Sign in:
2.6) That's it! I was on Ubuntu desktop about three minutes after starting the VM first time, using enhanced mode:
Happy computing, geeks!
Kari
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