Install VM virtual machine on Mac, equipped with Ubuntu system

Having a powerful Mac development tool and configuring an Ubuntu system is really fragrant.

Let’s install VM virtual machine + Ubuntu system with you today. The test is effective! !

Combining the online information and doing it yourself, there are screenshots for each step of the installation, explaining how to install the VM virtual machine on the Mac and then install the Ubuntu system.

table of Contents:

Download the VM installation package
Download the Ubuntu image file
Install VM
Install Ubuntu 18.04
some mistakes
thank

To download the VM, go to the official website of the VM or directly reply to VM in the background to obtain the installation package.

Official website connection: https://my.vmware.com/cn/web/vmware/info/slug/desktop_end_user_computing/vmware_fusion/11_0

Download the Ubuntu system, the more mature system versions are 16.04 and 18.04, download 18.04 directly from the official website. Or reply to Ubuntu in the background to get the iso file.

Official website link: https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop#download

3.1 Double-click [VMWare_11.5.0.dmg] to decompress the image file, and click [Agree]

3.2 Waiting for decompression

3.3 Drag VMware Fusion.app to the Applications folder on the right

(Just drag it for a while)

3.4 Waiting to copy

3.5 Click on the launch pad, find VMware Fusion, click launch

3.6 Enter the computer password (involving privacy, code death)

3.7 Prompt System extension is blocked, choose to open security preferences

3.8 Pass password or fingerprint verification, select Allow

3.9 Click to agree

3.10 Choose to enter the license key (Background reply VM key to obtain)

3.11 Computer verification again

3.12 carry out

3.13 After clicking Finish, it prompts Cannot access accessibility functions, click OK

3.14 Open system preferences

3.15 Click lock to unlock

3.16 Add VM to accessibility

3.17 After that, the VM startup page is as follows:

4.1 Find the downloaded Ubuntu image file

4.2 Start the VM, select Customize Virtual Machine, Continue

4.3 Choose the operating system (32-bit choose the following Ubuntu, it is not recommended to install 32-bit)

Select Linux -> Ubuntu 64 bit

4.4 Choose TraditionalBIOS** (simple, good compatibility)

4.5 Select virtual disk (default 20GB, can be modified later, 20G may be too small, many feedback 20G follow-up installation error, let us modify it to 30G later)

4.6 Complete, the custom setting at this time does not include modifying the hard disk size. Click Finish first.

4.7 Ubuntu settings. It pops up automatically.

If not, click the wrench? button above and select HDD

4.8 Set the disk size to 30G, click Apply

4.9 At this time, the big black box at the back is in a startup process, and some startup information will be displayed on it according to the speed of the computer. Finally, as shown in the figure, it prompts OS not found.

4.10 At the same time, this dialog box will pop up below. The purpose is to add a drive.

(If it does not pop up, click the wrench? mentioned earlier and select CD/DVD.)

4.11 Find the ubuntu image file you downloaded and open

4.12 As shown in the figure, the selected Ubuntu.xxxxx.iso appears, check the Connect CD/DVD drive above.

4.13 Select Virtual Machine-Restart above the virtual machine. Or sometimes the mouse is not very good to confirm that it is under the Mac system or the virtual system. If you do not listen to it, press the shortcut keys Command and -, and press them together.

4.14 Enter this page after reboot

If there are garbled characters, it should be a security verification problem, the Rootless protection mechanism of Mac.

If the VM was added to the security and privacy when the virtual machine was installed just now, this problem will not occur.

When this problem occurs, go to System Preferences->Security and Privacy->Accessibility->Check VM of the Mac computer.

4.15 Install Ubuntu, choose Chinese Simplified, don't make a mistake. Then install Ubuntu.

4.16 Select Keyboard Layout to continue

4.17 **Normal installation + other options ** are selected, save the subsequent manual installation. carry on

4.18 installation. Select Erase entire disk and install Ubuntu. Click to install now

4.19 Choose to continue

4.20 Successfully entered, set region

I enter beijing here and continue

4.21 Set user information and continue

4.22 Waiting for installation

Part of the installation:

The installation is about to complete:

4.23 Installation is complete, restart now.

4.24 Wait for the restart. Pay attention to the tips:

Please remove the installation medium,then press ENTER.

4.24.1 Pop-up reminder.

Seems familiar, right, remove the tick above and close it again.

(If it has been removed, just close it directly)

4.24.2 Focus the mouse on the Ubuntu startup page and press Enter.

4.25 Enter the password and enter successfully

**Mac install third-party software error prompt solution: **

On Mac system, when downloading and installing network files, it sometimes prompts "from an unidentified developer".

Solution: Click the ** "OK" ** button in the current pop-up window, and then go to the computer System Security Settings -> Security and Privacy, and select still open for the blocked file.

Sometimes it prompts: "XX file is damaged and cannot be opened".

Go to the computer System Security Settings -> Security and Privacy, click on the lock in the lower left corner. Then select Any Source.

Due to the protective measures of the Mac system, this option is removed from the new system. Enter in the terminal

sudo spctl --master-disable

enter password. Go to Security and Privacy to see [Choose any source].

The Ubuntu Wi-Fi setting prompts that there is no wifi adapter:

After entering the virtual machine, my Wi-Fi prompts that there is no adapter, but there is a network in the wired connection at Network. My Mac originally used wireless and didn't connect the network cable. This question is very interesting, I haven't figured it out yet. Welcome to exchange.

Thank you for reading, your reading gave me a lot of encouragement;

Thanks to the predecessors on the Internet, let me find many ways to solve the problem;

Thank you for your company and keep working hard.

Reference link:

sofeware management:

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/HCZf7A5C1nCFbQ4feaOpNg

CSDN：https://blog.csdn.net/JackJia2015/article/details/50757430