Notes

notes

Created 'manually' not using the Quick option, so can configure hard drive size
- Network Adapter: Default Switch
- [after VM created] Secure Boot disabled (so Ubuntu ISO can boot)
- NOT log in automatically as that could block RDP from connecting successfully (only 1 terminal session at a time)
memory:
- basic VM: 3 Gb seems enough
- with large site and containers: 14 Gb so docker containers in Ubuntu don't cause VM to freeze up
  - (maybe less memory would work, but 4 Gb also froze)
- dynamic memory OFF as tends to grow too much
CPU:
- set 4 virtual processors (50% of the physical cores)
- reserve the 50% of CPU by setting Processor | Virtual machine reserve (percentage) to 100
Hard drive:
- basic VM: 10 Gb is fine (5 Gb free)
- large site and containers: 40 Gb or 60 Gb in size (20 Gb was not enough long-term)
- Hosted on SSD

summary:

./extra-install-xrdp.sh

A. Make sure you’re not already logged on to the Ubuntu desktop… best thing is to restart and don’t logon
B. If you try Xorg session and it quickly disconnect… select the X11rdp from the drop-down list.. it will hang and not fully logon… close the session and try the Xorg session again… that time it will work… but keep prompting you to authenticate (prompt: Authentication is required to create a color managed device)… you can cancel the prompt windows…
C. Restart again if step B doesn’t work right away.

note: With RDP, copy-paste is possible