Installing Ubuntu is easy…

…however downloading a preinstalled VMWare image is easier.
Hint: the password for the administrative user is “ubuntu”

Ubuntu on VMWare

While Ubuntu is easily installed as a VMWare guest, the installation of theVMWare tools is more complicated as one should think.
Ubuntu needs to be prepared by executing the following commands:
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`
After that the VMWare Tools can be installed, initiated by selecting the menu item in VMWare, followed by these [...]