I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS as a virtual machine along with Windows 10 on my Lenovo Legion Y540. Recently I installed VMware Workstation Player and I wanted to use Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with VMware Workstation Player so that I can get extra feature like shared folders etc. But I'm unable to add it to VMware. I can't find the .vmx file. The only way to add it is to download the .iso file for Ubuntu 20.04 and I don't want to that unless I've no other options.
I did some googling and found that the virtual machine files are located inside C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Hyper-V but this folder is empty for me and I also can't find option for enabling Hyper-V in Control Panel->Turn Windows features on or off.
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You have Windows Home and that does not support Hyper-V (which is why you do not see it in Windows Features.
You should be able to install and run VMware Player (it seems that you could do this).
To install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, you need to download and install it using VMware Player. That will work fine.
I have Ubuntu 20.04 running here in VMware Workstation. I downloaded the Ubuntu ISO and then installed it. It is working just fine.
When you have downloaded the Ubuntu file (from the source you use, make a new Virtual machine in VMware Player, point the install to this file and install the machine.
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