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. Make sure to use instance size with 8GB or higher RAM for swift performance of the solution.
Note: The solution can only be deployed with the instances which support nested virtualization. Please deploy the solution on Dv3 or Ev3 VM sizes. Or you can choose the instance from the publisher recommendations as shown in the below screenshot.
Select the Authentication type as Password and enter Username as ubuntu and Password of your choice.
Optionally change the OS disk size and its type. Default disk is 40GB.
Optionally change the network and subnetwork names. Be sure that whichever network you specify has ports 22 (for ssh) and 3389 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.
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.
If you want to update your password then open up the left navigation pane, select Run command, select RunShellScript and enter following command to change the password of the vm .
sudo echo ubuntu:yourpassword | chpasswd
Now the password for ubuntu user is set, you can SSH to the VM. To do so, first note the public IP address of the VM from VM details page as highlighted below
Open putty, paste the IP address and click on Open.
login as ubuntu and provide the password for ‘ubuntu’ user.
You can also connect to the VM’s desktop environment from any local windows machine using RDP protocol or local linux machine using Remmina.
To connect using RDP via Windows Machine, first note the public IP address of the VM from VM details page as highlighted below
Then From your 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
This will connect you to the VM’s desktop environment. Provide the username (e.g “ubuntu”) and the password set in the step4 to authenticate. Click OK
Now you are connected to the VM’s Desktop environment via Windows Machine.
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.
In the “Remmina Remote Desktop Client” wizard, select the RDP option from dropdown and paste the external ip and click enter.
This will connect you to the VM’s desktop environment. Provide “ubuntu” as the userid and the password set in above reset password step to authenticate. Click OK
Now you are connected to VM’s Desktop environment via Linux machine.
Once you are connected to the VM’s desktop environment, you can access the NixOS. To do so double click on the NixOS Launcher available on the desktop as shown.
It will open a Virtual Machine Manager window. On this window , select NixOS-2405 option which is in shutoff stage and click on Power ON button as shown.
It will start the VM as shown. You can double click on the VM to open it or click on Open option from the menu.
If you see the vm is still starting then wait for few seconds to get the login page.
This vm comes with techlatest as the default user. Click on the username. It will open the password textbox. The default user is techlatest and password for this user is techlatest123.
Now you are logged in to NixOS system using techlatest user. You can enlarge this screen by clicking the double arrow at the top right corner.
Once you are connected to NixOS, update the techlatest password from terminal. Open terminal from Apps menu and run below command and enter the new password.
sudo passwd techlatest
Similarly you can update the root user password using
