

For example, you may want to try Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 LTS. Go to, hit the "download" link, and pick whichever version of Ubuntu you want to try out in a virtual machine.

Other versions and other hosts should work similarly.) (This was tested installing Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 LTS as a guest in VirtualBox-6.1 on a Windows 10 host. Setting up an Ubuntu virtual machine is easy. It doesn't matter if your host OS is Linux, MacOS, or something else. Once you have VirtualBox installed on your host computer. 6 Using ssh to access an Ubuntu virtual machine.5 A few things you can do with this virtual machine.3 return to the host operating system for further installation steps.2 installing inside the virtual machine.1 host operating system pre-install steps.– NAPI and Receive Segment Coalescing for 10% greater throughput on guests not using SR-IOV. – Hyper-V socket capability - a socket-based host/guest communication method that does not require a network. – The very latest Hyper-V device drivers and feature support available. The most notable highlights for this kernel include:

The kernel itself is provided by the linux-azure kernel package. Linux ubuntu 5.11.0-1021-azure #22~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 29 01:11: x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/LinuxĬanonical (the company behind Ubuntu Linux distribution) with the team at Microsoft Azure announced in September last year, that Ubuntu Cloud Images for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on Azure have been enabled with a new Azure tailored Ubuntu kernel by default. You can also check if the kernel finally changed uname -a This will install the Azure Kernel in Ubuntu. To optimize the virtual machine for Microsoft Hyper-V install also the linux-azure package.
