Windows 10: Hyper-V Quick Create - Setup Ubuntu Linux virtual machine

How to: Hyper-V Quick Create - Setup Ubuntu Linux virtual machine


Information Microsoft's cooperation with Canonical just took a giant leap. Will Cooke from Canonical announced new Hyper-V Quick Create Gallery virtual hard disk with pe-installed Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Using Quick Create, users can set up an Ubuntu Generation 2 virtual machine in just a minute or two.

Will Cooke on Ubuntu Blog on September 17th, 2018:

The Quick Create Gallery Ubuntu VM uses XRDP upstream to add support for Hyper-V Enhanced Session Mode. Everything is pre-installed, the new Ubuntu VM will allow enhanced mode on first boot.

This tutorial will show how you can set up a Generation 2 Ubuntu VM in a few easy steps.
Step 1: Setup Ubuntu VM from Quick Create Gallery1.1) In Hyper-V Manager, select Quick Create on Actions pane:




1.2) Select Ubuntu , click Create virtual machine:




1.3) Pre-made virtual hard disk will be downloaded (1.5 GB):




1.4) After the download, the file integrity will be verified and virtual machine created. It will be created using dynamic memory, with 2 GB RAM to start with. Hyper-V sets number of virtual processors automatically, based on what your host hardware allows. Click Edit settings to change settings, or click Connect:




1.5) Accepting default settings, you might be surprised how much of host RAM virtual machine's dynamic memory will consume after a few minutes use. In my case, I had to reduce the max RAM allowed to 4 GB after noticing that when browsing Ten Forums on Ubuntu VM, it suddenly used over 8 GB RAM when nothing else than browser with a few tabs was running.




Before setting lower max RAM, the VM was constantly using close to 8 GB. When left idle, it settled to 7,662 MB, over 7.5 GB, and remained there constantly as long as VM was idle:



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Step 2: Setup Ubuntu2.1) Start the virtual machine.

2.2) Select OS language, keyboard layout and time zone:




2.3) Set up your user account:




2.4) Setup will take a minute or two. When done, Enhanced Session Mode prompt will be shown. Click Connect:




2.5) Sign in:




2.6) That's it! I was on Ubuntu desktop about three minutes after starting the VM first time, using enhanced mode:



Happy computing, geeks!

Kari


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Hyper-V Quick Create - Setup Ubuntu Linux virtual machine  

@Kari, How could I doubt you - here is Linux running with 2GB assigned.

I have unbuntu open with only one app running (Libre Office Writer) as below.

Here is the memory demand - 5GB - Hell my Windows 10 VMS run comfortably in 4GB!

No wonder it is sluggish

I also tested it on my original version before the quick create VM (cool by the way), and it gave virtually the same result.

So who are all these fibbing Linuxians who keep telling us that it uses less resources than Windows? *chuckle.

 

Hyper-V new 'Quick Create' Ubuntu 18.04.01 LTS errors on boot

After enabling Hyper-V in Windows 10 Pro and following the 'Quick Create' type wizard in Hyper-V to create a Ubuntu 18.04.01 LTS virtual machine, Hyper-V encounters the following two errors when trying to boot this virtual machine.

This is following the completion of the 'Quick Create' wizard to establish the Hyper-V settings for this particular virtual machine.

When starting this virtual machine the window that this is occurring in displays the following two errors:

• Spectre V2: Spectre mitigation LFENCE not serializing, switching to generic retpoline.
• PCI: Fatal: No config space function found.

This results in the Ubuntu boot up failing and falling back to the Linux Grub menu.

I'm using Windows 10 Pro 64bit, version 1809 on a HP EliteBook 745 G5 notebook which uses an AMD Ryzen 5 2500u CPU.

Any help much appreciated.

 

Hyper-V Quick Create - Setup Ubuntu Linux virtual machine  

What is that screen? I have never seen it - I would like to check my version?

 

Hyper-V Quick Create - Setup Ubuntu Linux virtual machine  

No, that's not it. Memory demand is in both cases, static or dynamic RAM, over 6 GB. As only 4 GB is assigned, this naturally makes VM quite slow.




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