From the course: Practical Linux for Network Engineers: Part 1

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Ubuntu_Desktop_QEMU virtual machine

Ubuntu_Desktop_QEMU virtual machine - Linux Tutorial

From the course: Practical Linux for Network Engineers: Part 1

Ubuntu_Desktop_QEMU virtual machine

- [Speaker] In a previous video we configured two Ubuntu docker containers to talk to the internet via an ethernet switch and a Cisco IOSv router. I'm gonna extend the topology now by adding a graphical Ubuntu desktop computer to the network. So I'll connect this to an available interface on my ethernet switch, and then I'll start up the Ubuntu PC. This is a virtual machine that has a graphical user interface. The RAM and cpu requirements for this Ubuntu PC will be higher than for the docker containers, but it does give us a graphical user interface. The password to login is osboxes.org. Please have a look at my other videos that show you how to import this virtual machine into your genus three topologies. So in this example I'm gonna launch a terminal. It's important that you learn the CLI in Ubuntu. Notice we're told to run a command as an administrator, in other words root, use the sudo command. Now sudo, in Linux, allows you to run programs with the security privileges of another…

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