Running Linux in Windows

Some applications (such as GemStone/S 64 Bit) are not available as native Windows applications but are available as Linux applications. Fortunately, Microsoft includes Hyper-V on many versions of Windows 10 which allows you to run Linux as a guest operating system on your Windows (host) operating system. This blog post (along with an accompanying 2-minute video) describes how to set that up. See the image gallery below for screen shots of each step.

Enable Hyper-V

• Click the Start menu select Settings
• In the search field type “Hyper”
• Select “Turn Windows features on or off”
• Check the box for “Hyper-V” (If you get a block instead of a checkmark, then your environment does not fully support virtualization)
• Click “Restart now”

Create an Ubuntu Virtual Machine

• In the Windows task bar search field, type “Hyper”
• Open the Hyper-V Manager
• In the tree view in the left pane, select your local Windows machine
• Click “Quick Create…”
• Select an Ubuntu operating system
• When the virtual machine is successfully created, click “Connect” then “Start”

Setup and Update Ubuntu

• When Ubuntu starts, press any key in response to the “Press any key to continue…” prompt
• Select your language, keyboard, and location
• Provide your name, a host name for the Ubuntu OS, an account username, and a password (leave “Require my password to log in” selected)
• Once that process finishes, you will need to reconnect to the guest OS
• Login to Linux (using Xorg) with the username and password you created earlier
• Right-click on the desktop to get a context menu and select “Open Terminal”
• To update your Ubuntu OS, repeat the following series of commands until they show no changes:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade -y
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y
sudo apt autoremove

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