Setup and installation of 'Rocky Linux OS with GUI' on Azure

This section describes how to launch and connect to Rocky Linux OS with GUI VM in Azure.

1. Open Rocky Linux OS with GUI VM listing on Azure Marketplace.

2. Click on Get It Now

• Login with your credentials, provide the details here. Once done click on Continue.

• It will take you to the Product details page. Click on Create.

• Select a Resource group for your virtual machine

• Select a Region where you want to launch the VM(such as East US)

• Note: If you see “This image is not compatible with selected security type. To keep trusted launch virtual machines, select a compatible image. Otherwise change your security type back to Standard” error message below the Image name as shown in the screenshot below then please change the Security type to Standard.

• Optionally change the number of cores and amount of memory.

Select the Authentication type as Password and enter Username as rockylinux and Password of your choice.

• Optionally change the OS disk size and its type.

• Optionally change the network and subnetwork names. Be sure that whichever network you specify has “ports 22 (for ssh) and 3389 (for RDP)” exposed.

The VM comes with the preconfigured NSG rules. You can check them by clicking on Create New option available under the security group option.

• Optionally go to the Management, Advanced and Tags tabs for any advance settings you want for the VM.
• Click on Review + create and then click on Create when you are done.
  Virtual Machine will begin deploying.

3. A summary page displays when the virtual machine is successfully created. Click on Go to resource link to go to the resource page. It will open an overview page of virtual machine.

4. If you forgot your password or want to update the password of rockylinux user, to do so in the left navigation pane, select Run command, select RunShellScript and enter following command to change the password of the rockylinux user. .

sudo echo rockylinux:yourpassword | chpasswd

5. Now the password for rockylinux user is set, you can SSH to the VM -
6. Open putty, paste the IP address and click on Open.

7. login as rockylinux and provide the password for ‘rockylinux’ user.

8. You can connect to the VM’s desktop environment from any local windows machine using RDP protocol or local linux machine using Remmina.

9. To connect using RDP via Windows Machine, first note the public IP address of the VM from VM details page as highlighted below

10. Then From you local windows machine, goto “start” menu, in the search box type and select “Remote desktop connection”.
    In the “Remote Desktop connection” wizard, copy the public IP address and click connect

11. This will connect you to the VM’s desktop environment. Provide the username rockylinux and the password set in above step to authenticate. Click OK

12. Now you are connected to the out of box Rocky Linux OS with GUI environment via Windows Machine.

13. To connect using RDP via Linux machine, first note the external IP of the VM from VM details page,then from your local Linux machine, goto menu, in the search box type and select “Remmina”.

Note: If you don’t have Remmina installed on your Linux machine, firstInstall Remmina as per your linux distribution.

14. In the “Remmina Remote Desktop Client” wizard, select the RDP option from dropdown and paste the external ip and click enter.

15. This will connect you to the VM’s desktop environment. Provide rockylinux as the userid and the password set in above reset password step to authenticate. Click OK

16. Now you are connected to out of box Rocky Linux OS with GUI environment via Linux machine.

17. Run below command to add new user

sudo adduser username

18. Once user is added, set the password of that user by running-

sudo passwd username

19. Now add newly created user to the wheel group to give the sudo access by running below command-

sudo usermod -aG wheel username

20. Now new user setup is completed. You can use this user to connect to the Rocky Linux GUI Dekstop environment.

21. Now you are connected to out of box Rocky Linux OS Dekstop environment with new user. Right click on desktop icons and select “Allow Launching” option to make them executable.