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How to get SUSE GUI Linux on GCP (Google Cloud Platform)


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  1. Open SUSE GUI Linux marketplace listing on GCP Marketplace.



  2. Click Launch .
    • Select a zone where you want to launch the VM(such as us-east1-)
    • Optionally change the number of cores and amount of memory. (This defaults to 2 vCPUs and 8 GB ram.)
    • Optionally change the boot disk type and size. (This defaults to "Standard Persistent Disk" and 15 GB respectively)
    • Optionally change the network name and subnetwork names. Be sure that whichever network you specify has ports 22 (for ssh) and 3389 (for RDP) exposed.
    • Click Deploy when you are done. SUSE GUI Linux VM will begin deploying.



  3. A summary page displays when the compute engine is successfully deployed. Click on the Instance link to go to the instance page .

  4. On the instance page, click on the "SSH" button, select "Open in browser window".



  5. This will open SSH window in a browser.
  6. Run below command to set the password for root user

    7. sudo passwd root

    /img/gcp/desktop-linux-suse/root-passwd.png

  7. Run below command to create new user

    8. sudo useradd -m username

    /img/gcp/desktop-linux-suse/adduser.png

  8. Once user is added, set the password of that user by running-
    9. sudo passwd username

    /img/gcp/desktop-linux-suse/passwd.png

  9. Now the new user setup is done, you can connect to the VM's desktop environment from any local windows machine using RDP protocol or linux machine using Remmina.

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

    11. /img/gcp/desktop-linux/desktop-linux-external-ip.png

  11. Then From you local windows machine, goto "start" menu , in the search box type and select "Remote desktop connection"

  12. In the "Remote Desktop connection" wizard, copy the external ip and click connect.

    13. /img/gcp/desktop-linux/desktop-linux-rdp.png

  13. This will connect you to the VM's desktop environment. Provide username and password of new user created above to authenticate. Click OK



  14. If it ask for administrator password , provide the root password set in above step.


  15. Now you are connected to out of box SUSE GUI Linux environment via Windows Machine.



  16. Right click on desktop icons and select Allow Luanching option.



  17. 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".

    18. Note:: If you don't have Remmina installed on your Linux machine, first Install Remmina as per your linux distribution.

    /img/gcp/common/remmina-search.png


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

    19. /img/gcp/common/remmina-external-ip.png


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

    20. /img/gcp/desktop-linux-suse/remmina-login.png
  20. Now you are connected to out of box SUSE GUI Linux environment via Windows Machine.



  21. Right click on desktop icons and select Allow Luanching option.





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