How to install Ubuntu in windows 7 or latter using Virtual Machine Ware Player

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How to install Ubuntu in windows 7 or latter using Virtual Machine Ware Player

Important instruction for Ubuntu installation through vmplayer. Follow the instruction.

Ubuntu installation requirements:

Windows 7 or higher
vmware Player (any version)
virtual machine for Ubuntu
ubuntu-14.04-desktop-i386.iso

NOTE:
to download ubuntu-14.04-desktop-i386.iso follow the instructions below:
Please go to this link
http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.04/
and click on first link on the said page, named:
PC (Intel x86) desktop image
this will download you "ubuntu-14.04-desktop-i386.iso" 970MB.
Now continue the following steps:

1) First of all you need to install windows 7 in your computer.

2) If it is already installed, then download vmware player. For this open google.com, and type vmplayer .torrent.

3) Open 6^th link i.e. Download VMware Player 6.0.2 - FileHipo.com as shown below in snapshot.

1) In the next page, on the top right side of the page, Click on Download Latest Version (94.23MB) as shown below in screen shot.

Step 2) After downloading vmware Player, download Virtual Machine for Ubuntu.zip from VULMS downloads section, in the Page No. 4. as shown below in the snapshot.

After downloading Virtual Machine for Ubuntu.zip, extract all of its files and place them at desktop or somewhere else.

Step 3) Download ubuntu-14.04-desktop-i386.iso from VULMS under download section.

After downloading all three needed programs i.e.

Vmware Player 6.0.2

Virtual Machine for Ubuntu.zip

Ubuntu-14.04-desktop-i386.iso

Now install VMware Player, and follow the instructions.

1) Double click on setup icon, and press Next>

2) In the next step, Click on I accept the terms license agreement as shown below:

3) Change Destination Folder or click Next>

4) In the next step, uncheck the Check box option Check for product for updates on start up, and click Next>

5) Also uncheck Help improve VMWare Player, and click Next>

6) In the shortcuts wizard click on Next>

7) Click on Continue

8) Here installation Progress bar is showing below.

9) When setup wizard completes, click on Finish button. Now you have installed vmware player successfully in your computer.

Now double click on vmware player from the desktop shortcut icon.

Click on Open a Virtual Machine, and select Virtual Machine for Ubuntu folder (you have downloaded from VULMS and extracted). From above mentioned folder double click Ubuntu.vmx.

This will show you the following screen.

Now click on Edit virtual machine settings.

This will shoe you again above screen. Now click on Play virtual machine.

(NOTE: If you are installing this process in windows XP SPS-2, then this message will show you. So you are strongly recommended to install windows 7 or higher and follow the instructions in the above tutorial. Otherwise, some features will not work properly and it will take much time to install).

Then select CD/DVD (IDE) from Hardware Tab. Then go to Connection option and click Use ISO Image file:. From here, select ubuntu-14.04-desktop-i386.iso (You have downloaded from VULMS), and press Ok.

After editing virtual machine settings, click on Play Virtual Machine.
Now we are installing Ubuntu in windows 7 using Vmware Player.
Follow the instructions: