

Open terminal window and type the following commands (more information is available on.For this follow steps provided by Shannon Deminick’s post Installing. There is problem with libicu55 library that must be installed manually.Try to access VM using RDC from Windows box.Run Krfb and configure remote access like described in official documentation page Using Desktop Sharing.Installing and configuring xrdpĪs a next thing I made remote access work. If there were no issues then Kubuntu is ready to go. After installation Kubuntu required installation media to be removed and VM to be restarted. Installation went pretty fast – had time for on quick coffee and cigarette. Installation is actually easy – it’s just stepping through some dialogs and inserting user accound information in the end. I attached Kubuntu image as DVD, ran Kubuntu and opened VM in Hyper-V window.


xrdp works okay with xfce but Visual Studio Code has issues with it.xrdp works okay but not with Gnome desktop.RDC connection is way more user-friendly than Hyper-V window or some VNC window.Why Kubuntu? Here’s my long saga in short: I got everything running with Kubuntu after some small struggling. This post focuses on how to set up virtualized Linux environment for Visual Studio Code. This post is short overview about what I did and it is for those readers who also want to have Linux VM with Visual Studio Code. After hours of different problems that grew fast over my head I was able to make things work and now I have functioning VM I can use for demos. For my up-coming presentation “ASP.NET Core on Linux” I need Linux VM I can access with Remote Desktop to run Visual Studio Code.
