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Installing and using a Linux VM

Here, we will be installing Ubuntu.

According to the www.ubuntu.com website, the required resources to install Ubuntu Desktop Edition are as follows:

2 GHz dual core processor
2 GB RAM (system memory)
25 GB of hard-drive space (Ubuntu can also be installed on a USB stick, memory card, or external drive)
A monitor capable of 1024x768 screen resolution

I installed Ubuntu on a VM, but the process is the same on a PC.

For those of you that don't know what a VM is, you could say that it's a virtual computer, run by specialized software, either on your desktop or in a dedicated environment. These virtual computers are called guests, and they are run on a host OS.

I personally use VMware Workstation, but there are ...

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