Azure Ubuntu Vm Remote Desktop

  



Some days ago Chris Pietschmann wrote about How to Setup an Ubuntu Linux VM in Azure with Remote Desktop (RDP) Access(great job certainly), and in a little ping pong messages I ask about how to enable another Desktop GUI that be more “attractive” to the users (GNOME or Ubuntu Desktop)… Chris said that he tried with Ubuntu desktop, but something goes wrong with xRDP (the server for RDP for X Window)… and the challenge was born!… and here we are…

First that all… I want to recognize that I didn’t reinvent the wheel… I just put some pieces of the puzzle together :0).

Azure Ubuntu Vm Remote Desktop

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I’ll to obviate the explanation about the support for RDP in Linux and the process to create an Ubuntu VM in Azure, for more detail go to the blog entry mentioned above…

When you get your Ubuntu VM up and running… connect via ssh (I use the Ubuntu bash in my Windows 10…) and do the next:

First you need to install Unity Desktop GUI (obviously):

Azure Ubuntu Vm Remote Desktop

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  • To install Unity run the next commands in your terminal session:
    • sudo apt-get update
  • Restart the VM by the Azure portal
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You can see that the Unity Desktop is installed by using Boot diagnostics in the Azure portal

  • If like me, you RDP to VMs running in Hyper-V, XenServer or vSphere quite often and you run Ubuntu you likely want to remote to these VMs too. Every time I setup a new Linux VM, I set this up. I documented the manual process for my own purposes and I thought I’d share.
  • In order to connect to your Ubuntu VM from a Windows first we have to enable the XRDP in the Ubuntu in order enable the Remote Desktop Connection. So to enable XRDP we should connect to the server, PUTTY is a the commonly used client for SSH. (SSH is enabled by default in the Ubuntu VM on Azure).


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The next task that we need to do is to install and configure xRDP
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  • Create a Downloads folder under your home directory, and go to there:
    • mkdir Downloads
    • cd Downloads
  • Download the next zip file (that contains the script to install and configure xRDP for Unity Interface). I’ll give credits to Griffon who’s wrote the original one install-xrdp-1.9.1.zip
    • wget -O /home/terminator/Downloads https://tym1zq.bn.files.1drv.com/y4mWThEWEC0iKojSq34rQCdsw4GdG0dkbpLTLPMHJRT6AXndOq1f8rZ2VvTAi2g9lpg3CFrHKnG9XcF5FXPeR9FdOjdg9Oyvu8BIlxY4xXLR1HsI-1vRM4SIGr5Ik39gzKceZL3fqgROkVn3aMmYZEQI6xrFfVLYyMfC-RvBFjYGxLCNp8BpuqRu_LFVsVfAdi-/install-xrdp-1.9.1.zip
    • sudo apt-get install unzip
    • unzip install-xrdp-1.9.1.zip
    • chmod +x ~/Downloads/install-xrdp-1.9.1.sh

    The last image resumes the previous steps…

    And execute that! :O) (you can go to take a coffee in the while…)

    • sudo ./install-xrdp-1.9.1.sh

    … when the process ends (and you have tasted your coffee…) test the connection… is I posted in a Tweet reply to @BuildAzure if you use the Windows RDP client (mstsc.exe) the performance get slow… but if you use another one (for example FreeRDP) the connection works fine… according to some post in some blogs the issue is with the RemoteFX feature (in the client side)…

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That’s all folks!