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We will walk through how to set up an Ubuntu 16.04 VM running in Hyper-V with Enhanced Session Mode. The experience we’re working towards in Ubuntu 18.04 can be set up in Ubuntu 16.04 (with a few extra steps). In the lead up to the official release of 18.04, we'd like to begin getting feedback on how satisfied users are with the general experience. We've chosen Canonical's next LTS release, Bionic Beaver, to be the focal point of our investments. There may be some bugs you discover in 16.04-and that's okay! We want to gather this data so we can make the 18.04 experience great. Our TARGET experience will be with 18.04. This tutorial outlines steps to have an enhanced Ubuntu experience in 16.04. Read on to learn how you can get a sneak peek! With only 3 mouse clicks, users will be able to get an Ubuntu VM running that offers clipboard functionality, drive redirection, and much more.īut you don’t have to wait until the release of Ubuntu 18.04 to try out the improved Linux VM experience. Is the perfect vehicle to deliver such an experience. On the upcoming Ubuntu 18.04 release to make this experience a reality, and we’re working to provide a solution that works out of the box. , who have implemented Microsoft’s RDP protocol on Linux. Our users asked us to go further: they wanted that same first-class experience on Linux VMs as well.Īs we thought about how we could deliver a better-quality experience-one that achieved closer parity with Windows clients-we found an opportunity to collaborate with the open source folks at We invested in making the Windows client VM experience first-class, and users really liked it. And despite being a separate OS, we feel there's a great importance in having a VM experience that feels tightly integrated with the host.

Whether you're a developer or an IT admin, virtual machines are familiar tools that allow users to run entirely separate operating system instances on a host.

**Update: This feature is now generally available. First published on TECHNET on Feb 28, 2018

A sneak peek