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In some cases, when you trying to drag and drop a file from the Window host to the Ubuntu guest in VMware. As you can see, this feature is not working as expected. Even the Open VM Tools was installed…
In general, users are required to authentication before logging on to a Linux device. This helps in ensuring that sensitive and personal information on the device is safe. But, if you are so sure that the Linux system is placed…
VirtualBox guest additions are a collection of device drivers and software application packages shipped with Oracle VirtualBox. Installing Guest additions improve the guest operating system’s performance and extra features. Guest Addition provides seamless mouse support, file transfer between the host…
Install VirtualBox Guest Additions in Ubuntu and with this you’ll be able to copy-paste, drag and drop between the host and guest system. It makes using Ubuntu in virtual machine a lot easier The VirtualBox Guest Additions consist of device…
After installing a guest operating system (OS) on VirtualBox, the interface of the guest OS is displayed in a windowed mode by default. Moreover, the size of that window is usually not big, and if you maximize the window’s size,…
After installing a guest operating system (OS) on VMware Workstation, the interface of the guest OS is displayed in a windowed mode by default. Moreover, the size of that window is usually not big, and if you maximize the window’s size, the resolution of the guest OS user interface is left the same. In the majority of cases, working in a guest OS with low resolution is not comfortable.
If you’re using VMware Player, VMware Workstation Pro, VMware ESXi or vSphere, then VMware Tools is a very important tool for you. VMware Tools helps a VMware virtual machine (VM) integrate nicely with VMware hypervisor. When VMware Tools is installed…
The sudo command is designed to allow users to run programs with the security privileges of another user, by default the root user. In this post, we will show you how to create a new user with sudo access on…
Ubuntu 20.04 Server User with root (sudo) privileges 1. Refresh the repository and package lists, and perform the necessary upgrades with the following command: sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade -y 2. In this step, we will install…
We have noticed that a lot of people hit the same issue over and over again. When trying to connect via remote desktop protocol (rdp) to the Ubuntu machine, and after providing the credentials in the xRDP Login page, the user will only see a black screen displayed and the desktop interface is never loaded and displayed. This post will basically explain why this happens and how to reproduce the issue.