Installing Ubuntu's blood-vomiting experience under VMware

One: Cause

(1) Learn the history of Linux Yourself

I've been thinking about practicing, learning Python, and C programming under Linux, and Shell programming is incidentally, and today it's suddenly interesting to start installing.

(2) History of Blood and tears

In other words, the first time I installed WMware, vbox do not remember when, the most recent time in the study of Hadoop Map/reduce, and installed again, because the previous several times, the installation version of the different (Ubuntu), may encounter a different problem each time, unfortunately-- I did not make any records, it led to the experience of vomiting blood today (probably took me half an hour to solve the boot into a DOS-like command line interface, I just forgot how to enter the UI window interface)

II: Causes and Results

(1) It took me about half an hour to resolve the boot to a DOS-like command-line interface, forgetting how to get into the UI window interface .

Oneself first various Baidu Google--

1) Linux commune:

With the Ubuntu 10.4 virtual system installed under VMware, it is sometimes more convenient to feel the character command interface, such as programming, and sometimes it feels more convenient to xwindow the user interface, such as surfing the Internet.

So, how do you want to switch the interface?

First, in VMware, the user presses CTRL + ALT to perform the command to return the cursor focus from the virtual system to the PC.

Under the Xwindow interface, press SHIFT + CTRL + ALT + f1/f2/.../f6, respectively, to switch to each character command interface.

Under the character interface, press ALT + F2/.../F7 to switch to a different character interface or Xwindow user interface, where F7 is the Xwindow user interface.

Brother I am also more stupid, according to the human speaking, each button, this crazy press ... (Not responding)

2) Baidu knows:

Lt+ctrl+space (space), Alt+ctrl do not release, and then press F1, from the graphical interface switch back to the character interface, no user name is displayed, only one cursor, unable to execute the command. What should I do about this?

I'm not going to be.

3) Baidu Paste Bar

Yesterday with the VMware installed, after the installation is a DOS interface, as if there is input password and so on, I lost but did not respond Ah! How should you install it correctly?

StartX's not responding. Sudo apt-get install KDE

Problem solved, enter the STARTX command to

4) Later, a more detailed answer was found on the CSDN

1. Press ALT+CTRL+F1 to switch to character interface (Linux physical machine)

If the Linux system is installed on a VMware virtual machine, the following actions are required when switching to the character interface

Press Alt+ctrl+space (space), Alt+ctrl do not release, and then press F1. This allows you to switch to the character interface.

2, press ALT+CTRL+F7 switch to the GUI (Linux physical machine)

If the Linux system is installed on a VMware virtual machine, the following actions are required to switch to the graphical interface

Press Alt+ctrl+space (space), Alt+ctrl do not release, and then press F7. This allows you to switch to the graphical interface.

In Linux, there are generally alt+ctrl+f1----F6 for character terminals (character interface), Alt+ctrl+f7 for graphical interfaces. There may be some differences between releases, but the switching methods are the same. You can try it yourself to know which is the character terminal and which is the graphical interface.

If you want Ubuntu to boot to command prompt each time, you can enter the following command:

$echo "false" | sudo tee/etc/x11/default-display-manager

When the next boot, it will start in command line mode (text mode, character interface login), if you want to change back to the graphical interface start (X Windows boot), you can enter:

$echo "/USR/SBIN/GDM" | sudo tee/etc/x11/default-display-manager

If the UBUNTN is started in command-line mode, the character terminal wants to return to the graphical interface with the following command:

    $ StartX

(3) Small note: Regardless of the problem, or big or small, the problems encountered must be recorded in a timely manner, in case the same shameful mistakes in the future.

Installing Ubuntu's blood-vomiting experience under VMware