To run Ubuntu in a VMware virtual machine, you need a computer that supports virtualization, the latest version of VMware Workstation Player, a four-core processor, 4GB to 8GB of RAM, and at least ...

VMWare emulates an AMD PCNet32 NIC for guests, it never gets access go the hardware and if you have the NIC enabled in the VMWare config it should get detected on bootup automatically.

VMware has supported Linux desktops running on its VDI platform since VMware Horizon 6.2. In fact, last year I wrote an article on how to use CentOS as a Linux desktop on VMware Horizon 6.2, and ...

I've been using FreeBSD for years for server applications and I've played a bit with Ubuntu as a desktop OS now and again. But I like the minimalism of Arch Linux, so I'm looking to give that a whirl.