Azure Ubuntu Vm Remote Desktop

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Azure Ubuntu Vm Remote Desktop

  • Linux virtual machines (VMs) in Azure are usually managed from the command line using a secure shell (SSH) connection. When new to Linux, or for quick troubleshooting scenarios, the use of remote desktop.
  • On the Azure portal, Select your VM - Settings - Boot diagnostics. Make sure that you can see the login screen. You might need to enable diagnostics (under Monitoring section) if not enabled already. If you don't see the login screen, trying the 'Redeploy' option under.

I've setup an Azure virtual machine using Ubuntu 16.04LTS but I'm struggling to get remote desktop to work for it. I've setup the endpoint as follows: I've also setup and started xrdp as well as installed xfce4. For reference, here's my command history since creating the VM: Update Packages and Install xfce4.

For the past many months I have moved to have my dev boxes on the cloud. Outlook 365 outlook rules. I am happily using a monster Windows VM and an utility Ubuntu desktop in the cloud. I realized after talking to a few people that they don’t realize how easy it is to setup Linux remote desktop in Azure cloud. Here goes the steps.

For VM configuration I needed a small sized VM with large enough network bandwidth to support remoting. Unfortunately on Azure you cannot choose networking bandwidth but rather all the VMs in a box gets networking bandwidth proportional to the number of cores they have. So I just created a VM based on the “Standard DS4 v2 Promo (8 vcpus, 28 GB memory)” and connected it to Microsoft ExpressRoute. If you are ok with public IP you skip setting the express route and ensure your VM has a public IP.

Then went to the Portal and enabled RDP. For that in the portal choose VM –> Networking and add rule to enable RDP.

Finally I sshed into my VM with

c:binputty.exe abhinaba@AbhiUbuntu

Time to now install a bunch of tools

Setup xsession

Create Ubuntu Vm Azure

Open the following file

Azure Ubuntu Vm Remote Desktop

Azure Ubuntu Vm

Set the content to

start the xrdp service

Azure Ubuntu Vm Remote Desktop Download

And then from my windows machine mstsc /v:machine_ip. I am presented with the login screen

Azure Ubuntu Vm Remote Desktop Software

then I have full Ubuntu desktop on Azure :) Domaca narodna muzika youtube.