How to Install Ubuntu Server 16.04 in a Hyper-V Generation 2 VM

See the instructions to Create a virtual machine by using Hyper-V Manager

Install Ubuntu Server (just hit enter)

Choose Language: English

• Location: United States
• Configure keyboard: Choose your keyboard or use automatic detection. Having the right keyboard will help you to type correctly the password later.
• If the network of your vSwitch have DHCP, the installation continue automatically, if not please setup IP/mask/GW and DNS IPs manually
• Hostname: In our Case EVE-NG

• Domain name: anything you want, or example.com
• Full name of user: Type your name.
• Username of your account: user (this will be used first time login in to Ubuntu)

• Password: enter password, confirm enter password again
• Use weak password: YES (you will see it only if you entered a weak password above)
• Encrypt your home directory: NO
• Configure Clock: if your DNS IP is set right, time zone is set automatically
• Partition disks: use entire disk and setup LVM
• Partition disks: As you have only one disk, just click continue
• Write changes to disk and create LVM: YES
• Amount of volume: leave the entire offered size
• Force UEFI Installation: YES
• Write changes to disk: YES
• Http proxy: NO. Except if you are using a proxy, then configure it for internet reachability.
• Configuring task: Install security updates automatically
• Software selection: IMPORTANT: add Open SSH server to the selection (mark with spacebar).

• Install GRUB boot loader: YES (must be automatic)
• At the end of the installation: reboot

After the reboot, stay on the Hyper-V terminal of your VM to change some first settings. After that, we will use SSH.

Login with your user created during the installation part and get root access:

moalaa@EVE-NG:~$ sudo su
[sudo] password for moalaa: 
root@EVE-NG:/home/moalaa# 
root@EVE-NG:/home/moalaa# 

Change the root password. Here you can choose your own root password:

root@EVE-NG:/home/moalaa# sudo passwd root
Enter new UNIX password: 
Retype new UNIX password: 
passwd: password updated successfully
root@EVE-NG:/home/moalaa# 

Check the Internet access and the domain-name resolution, with the command:

root@EVE-NG:/home/moalaa# ifconfig 
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:15:5d:a7:11:00  
          inet addr:192.168.1.9  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::215:5dff:fea7:1100/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1090 errors:0 dropped:1 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:178 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:112432 (112.4 KB)  TX bytes:24411 (24.4 KB)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:224 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:224 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1 
          RX bytes:17664 (17.6 KB)  TX bytes:17664 (17.6 KB)

root@EVE-NG:/home/moalaa# 

root@EVE-NG:/home/moalaa# ping google.com
PING google.com (172.217.21.14) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from mrs09s10-in-f14.1e100.net (172.217.21.14): icmp_seq=1 ttl=116 time=42.7 ms
64 bytes from mrs09s10-in-f14.1e100.net (172.217.21.14): icmp_seq=2 ttl=116 time=47.8 ms
64 bytes from mrs09s10-in-f14.1e100.net (172.217.21.14): icmp_seq=3 ttl=116 time=56.3 ms
^C
--- google.com ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2002ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 42.789/49.012/56.374/5.607 ms
root@EVE-NG:/home/moalaa# 

Check for updates by using the command “sudo apt-get update“.

moalaa@EVE-NG:~$ sudo apt-get update
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [109 kB]
Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease            
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [109 kB]
Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [107 kB]
Fetched 325 kB in 2s (151 kB/s)   
Reading package lists... Done
moalaa@EVE-NG:~$ 

To install the latest versions of all the installed packages on your system, use the command”sudo apt-get upgrade“.

moalaa@EVE-NG:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  base-files linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic ubuntu-server
The following packages will be upgraded:
  bind9-host curl dnsutils libbind9-140 libcurl3-gnutls libdns-export162 libdns162 libisc-export160 libisc160 libisccc140 libisccfg140 liblwres141
  libx11-6 libx11-data linux-signed-generic python3-software-properties software-properties-common ubuntu-minimal ubuntu-standard
19 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 3,203 kB of archives.
After this operation, 13.3 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y

Congratulations! You are done with the installation.