Here’s a quick guide to setting this up, starting with an Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic AMI on Amazon EC2:Ĭreate a user-data script which installs runurl (not on Karmic AMIs by default) and then runs a simple desktop and NX server installation script. Ubuntu makes it pretty easy to install the desktop software on a server, and NX from NoMachine makes it pretty easy to access that desktop remotely, with near real-time interactivity even over slowish connections. However we do want to automate the process and in the next video we will look at how to start building and auto install environment for Ubuntu using preseed files.įor the moment lets make sure we can can get Ubuntu installed in our chosen environment and the video will step you though the process.As Thilo Maier pointed out in comments on my request for UDS input, I have been publishing both server and desktop AMIs for running Ubuntu on EC2 up through Jaunty, but the official Karmic AMIs on EC2 only support server installations by default. The install process run through effortlessly as you will expect and it does not take long before we can login as our user. You can always download the ISO file from Ubuntu. I can choose just 512M of RAM and even a 6GB disk will be more than sufficient for the needs of the demonstration. In my version of KVM there is not a template yet for 16.04 so I choose Vivid Vervet which is the 15.04 version. This makes it easy to find and permissions will be present for KVM to access the ISO file. I have stored it in the main image library in KVM: /var/lib/libvirt/images. To start the install we have to make sure the ISO file is already downloaded on the KVM host. If you want to use this as a guide to install Ubuntu 16.04 desktop then it will work equally as well. I am choosing to install the Ubuntu server rather than the desktop as most of what I teach and work with is Linux in a server environment where the desktop GUI does not come into play. It is good though to be able show the complete Linux solution using open source tools from start to finish.
It could equally be Ubuntu or any other Linux distribution. The virtualization host that we are using is KVM.
We will install Ubuntu as a virtual machine or VM.
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