Wiki: How to Install a Virtual Machine and an Operating System
Written and created by Lauren Grassano, Ariel Ynovy, & Andrew Pannelli Using a virtual machine can be a necessary subject these days. With Linux and Mac growing in popularity, learning to code for those platforms is of importance. Testing software to be cross-platform is important. Also, if you need to learn how to deploy a server without altering your own machine, a virtual instance of a operating system is the way to go. We are going to show you step by step how to create a virtual machine using VMWare, one of the most popular virtual machine software in the business, along with Ubuntu, easily the most recognizable Linux distributions on the market. Linux is a kernel, or back end , the code, of an operating system. Then along with several other parts, the OS comes together. The most recognizable manner which everyone knows their favorite distribution, or distro, is by the desktop environment. Desktop environments are the Graphical User Interfaces' that we use to ac
