There are probably thousands of guides on how to create a VM using VMware Workstation.
Lets visit to ubuntu site to download Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS Server image. The image file name is ubuntu-20.04.4-live-server-amd64.iso (image link may change, dont fume on me)
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I will skip installation of VMware workstation. Start from creating vm.
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Ensure you have checked this otherwise we wont be able SSH to the VM.
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In case you missed this. Dont worry. You can search how to install openSSH in Ubuntu.
sudo apt install openssh-server
sudo systemctl status ssh
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Now, once installation is completed, you reboot the VM and it will prompt for a logon console.
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Use the ID we created earlier ubuntu and the password along with.
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This is where it shows the IP assigned to my VM. 192.168.9.95, this is local IP. we will soon change this to static public IP.