Good day house, I've been trying to run Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS 64bits on VMware workstation but it keep returning an error message that...
"This virtual machine is configured for 64bits guest operating systems. However, 64bits operation is not possible
Has anyone come across this or know what could possibly be the cause or solution?

PS: I read th link attached on t error message but it didnt solve th issue.

why not use a bootable flash drive

Averted:
why not use a bootable flash drive

I did that with a flash drive but as it is with the bootable drive, I can't make changes or installations and have them there after restarting my machine. The reason I want it there is so I can play around with it for a long while before deciding on what next to do.

Vicben:

I did that with a flash drive but as it is with the bootable drive, I can't make changes or installations and have them there after restarting my machine. The reason I want it there is so I can play around with it for a long while before deciding on what next to do.

partition the drive and create a persistence on it

I think your pc doesn't support 64bit os rather find the 32bit version of it

What's your system 64bits or 32bits

Most likely you are running a 32 bit version of vmware or your operating system is 32 bit. What operating system are you running and what is the architecture of your vmware(x86 or x64)?

Pcguru1, seunthomas, ultmastmis,
My system is 64bits OS. HP pro book 640 G1, Intel correct i5. 4GRAM, cpu 2.7.....GHz.

I later tried installing it [the Ubuntu] alongside with Windows and it fried my drive completely. My windows is gone! Everything gone!

But meanwhile, I created a partition for it before doing the installation but somehow, things didn't go on well so it erased my drive and even the Ubuntu is still not booting from the drive. I'm only booting it now from the flash while I try partition and file recovery with TestDisk but I hasn't been successful

Vicben:
Pcguru1, seunthomas, ultmastmis,
My system is 64bits OS. HP pro book 640 G1, Intel correct i5. 4GRAM, cpu 2.7.....GHz.

I later tried installing it [the Ubuntu] alongside with Windows and it fried my drive completely. My windows is gone! Everything gone!

But meanwhile, I created a partition for it before doing the installation but somehow, things didn't go on well so it erased my drive and even the Ubuntu is still not booting from the drive. I'm only booting it now from the flash while I try partition and file recovery with TestDisk but I hasn't been successful

donsegmond i think he's trying to install side by side wth windows and vicben should have seeked advice before trying to do stuffs like that maybe you erased your drive when installing

ultmatmus:

donsegmond i think he's trying to install side by side wth windows and vicben should have seeked advice before trying to do stuffs like that maybe you erased your drive when installing

What I wanted to do was to install Ubuntu alongside windows. I even created a drive before trying it out but it someone erased my entire drive.

Vicben:

What I wanted to do was to install Ubuntu alongside windows. I even created a drive before trying it out but it someone erased my entire drive.

There's nothing you can do to it .you've erased your hard drive?

You would have saved yourself all this trouble by using Oracle Virtual box. Most times VMWARE is usually a pain in the neck or rather get a remote server and deploy your linux on it (customised)

@All, I have the same issue too,
It was the USB i was using , tried about 3 different USB, after putting my ubuntu( the right version downloaded from their site ), its still not booting -of which i had already set my sys to boot form USB. i later found out that some USB do act funny sometimes , so i left usb for DVD

After putting the ubuntu on the dvd , i booted the system from dvd, and " sonic boom" , it worked ! i have been playing around with it for a while now, ubuntu is cool mehn... Although i still have my windows. I have OVM ( oracle virtual machine ) installed on my sys, so i guess after a while i will decided to install it preferably on the ovm , cos of issues associated with running it side by side with windows, as the case of vicben.
So i will suggest vicben should download ovm and put the ubuntu there.
hope it works !
cheers

@whytelon: can i possibly put kali on the OVM alongside ubuntu as well , without encountering any issues , i guess its gone work tho!
but just wanna ask from a more experienced fellow.
Thanks in anticipation
cheers

Toughluv:
@whytelon: can i possibly put kali on the OVM alongside ubuntu as well , without encountering any issues , i guess its gone work tho!
but just wanna ask from a more experienced fellow.
Thanks in anticipation
cheers

Yes you can, you just need to create virtual RAM, virtual hard disk space and you good to go.
But why would you wonna strain your Pc? Deploying just one OS for Linux is Ok, either Kali or Ubuntu is enough. On ma OVM I have just kali.

Load as ISO instead of USB (most recommended)

Most of this USB troubles at times deal with system architecture, and you have to setup with several extra configuration possibly with Samba (interactive client for communication between windows and linux). There are few configurations you have to also set aright before you can get it to work also,and since you intermediate with this I decided to recommend virtual box as it's used in most industry standard environment at present day.

@whytelon Thanks, kali is cool too, will see to it too

Whytelyon:


Yes you can, you just need to create virtual RAM, virtual hard disk space and you good to go.
But why would you wonna strain your Pc? Deploying just one OS for Linux is Ok, either Kali or Ubuntu is enough. On ma OVM I have just kali.

Load as ISO instead of USB (most recommended)

Most of this USB troubles at times deal with system architecture, and you have to setup with several extra configuration possibly with Samba (interactive client for communication between windows and linux). There are few configurations you have to also set aright before you can get it to work also,and since you intermediate with this I decided to recommend virtual box as it's used in most industry standard environment at present day.

whats the difference between OVM and Virtualbox

ultmatmus:

whats the difference between OVM and Virtualbox

It's the same thing. No difference.

Whytelyon:

It's the same thing. No difference.

i just dey surprised ni o bro

ultmatmus:

i just dey surprised ni o bro

What's surprising you?

Whytelyon:

What's surprising you?

when you used ovm and virtual box on different context ni oo .but never mind

Vicben:
Good day house, I've been trying to run Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS 64bits on VMware workstation but it keep returning an error message that...
"This virtual machine is configured for 64bits guest operating systems. However, 64bits operation is not possible
Has anyone come across this or know what could possibly be the cause or solution?

PS: I read th link attached on t error message but it didnt solve th issue.

You need to enable VT-x in the BIOS, sometimes called Hyper-V

@whytelon: I was trying to install ubuntu on my OVM, but I keep getting an error message saying " This kernel requires an x86-64 CPU, but only detected an i686 CPU, unable to boot - pls make sure a kernel appropriate for you CPU "
I guess my OVM is not x86-64 CPU, don know what's wrong!

Toughluv:
@whytelon: I was trying to install ubuntu on my OVM, but I keep getting an error message saying " This kernel requires an x86-64 CPU, but only detected an i686 CPU, unable to boot - pls make sure a kernel appropriate for you CPU "
I guess my OVM is not x86-64 CPU, don know what's wrong!

Did you select Ubuntu(64bit) after selecting linux as your OS? I assume you are using VirtualBox

@AKBLIV010 , I didn't at first, my bad!! but I just did that now, and I got a place where I have the following :

installation type :
"this computer currently has no detected OS, what would u like to do?

1 erase disk and install ubuntu
warning : This will delete all ur programme, pics, music and other files in all OS

2 encrypt d new ubuntu installation for security

3 use LVM with d new ubuntu installation


4 something else .........bla bla bla.......

so I was wondering which which the option should I choose
Thank a billion!!!!!

cheers

Toughluv:
@AKBLIV010 , I didn't at first, my bad!! but I just did that now, and I got a place where I have the following :

installation type :
"this computer currently has no detected OS, what would u like to do?

1 erase disk and install ubuntu
warning : This will delete all ur programme, pics, music and other files in all OS

If you are running it in a virtual environment then go for option 1. VirtualBox will allocate some of your HDD space to install it. Is this the case? Please make sure o, I won't be held responsible if you loose all your data. As a precaution, perform a backup of your current system.

Vicben:
Pcguru1, seunthomas, ultmastmis,
My system is 64bits OS. HP pro book 640 G1, Intel correct i5. 4GRAM, cpu 2.7.....GHz.

I later tried installing it [the Ubuntu] alongside with Windows and it fried my drive completely. My windows is gone! Everything gone!

But meanwhile, I created a partition for it before doing the installation but somehow, things didn't go on well so it erased my drive and even the Ubuntu is still not booting from the drive. I'm only booting it now from the flash while I try partition and file recovery with TestDisk but I hasn't been successful

Am sorry i didn't get this notification, did you select erase everything and install Ubuntu, it's possible it just got rid of your bootloader, try booting from the flash drive and see if your windows partition still exisits, if it does, all you need is to install a Grubloader that will enable you pick which OS to boot that's how i run both Ubuntu and Windows 10 together. what's the situation now ?

pcguru1:


Am sorry i didn't get this notification, did you select erase everything and install Ubuntu, it's possible it just got rid of your bootloader, try booting from the flash drive and see if your windows partition still exisits, if it does, all you need is to install a Grubloader that will enable you pick which OS to boot that's how i run both Ubuntu and Windows 10 together. what's the situation now ?

The situation got worse at a time and I had to do a fresh installation of windows and booted the Ubuntu on the Windows again with much caution and precision...good thing is I got it right this time after reading the contributions of fellow geeks here and on other online forums.

I dual booted the Ubuntu last night after playing with it again on the USB stick and I can tell you that the experience is awesome. Linux is a great OS and is much stable, faster and sleeker than windows 7(my POV).

What's your experience with Ubuntu?
Hope I'm not the only one falling in love with Ubuntu.
One thing I'm looking for in Ubuntu now is a nice graphic software cos that's what I work on mostly.

Does anyone have some awesome apps to can recommend? Not only graphics though

Vicben:

The situation got worse at a time and I had to do a fresh installation of windows and booted the Ubuntu on the Windows again with much caution and precision...good thing is I got it right this time after reading the contributions of fellow geeks here and on other online forums.

I dual booted the Ubuntu last night after playing with it again on the USB stick and I can tell you that the experience is awesome. Linux is a great OS and is much stable, faster and sleeker than windows 7(my POV).

What's your experience with Ubuntu?
Hope I'm not the only one falling in love with Ubuntu.
One thing I'm looking for in Ubuntu now is a nice graphic software cos that's what I work on mostly.

Does anyone have some awesome apps to can recommend? Not only graphics though

when you say graphics, do you mean Image Editing or 3D Graphics or are you refering to a desktop with an enhanced graphics

pcguru1:


when you say graphics, do you mean Image Editing or 3D Graphics or are you refering to a desktop with an enhanced graphics

The former i mean, image editing, 3D and vector

Vicben:
The former i mean, image editing, 3D and vector

Image Editing - (Rasterization based ) GIMP but Photoshop is still superior in my opinion
Vector - Inkscape
3D Graphics - Blender (I used this for 3D on web and this sh.it is small, but mehn has tons and tons of features imagine a 40bm competiting with 1GB app on windows.)