问题描述
由于vmware虚拟机驱动程序非常标准，因此我认为预先安装的映像无法移植的任何技术原因。
虽然上面的情况很明显，但我没有找到任何预安装的Ubuntu vmware映像。
是否有可信赖的免费vmware映像或预安装了Ubuntu的OVF映像？
注意：OVF图像工作在with most of the players！
最佳解决办法
似乎在SuperUser上已经提出了相同的问题 – Where can I find Ubuntu Desktop releases on a vmdk
以下是接受的答案：
I have not found any official ubuntu website distributing vmdk’s.
According to http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/
very few suppliers of ubuntu desktop on vmdk exist (3 to be exact).
This seems to be focused on vm creation and distribution, and for now I consider this the de-facto website to go to for ubuntu desktop vmdk’s: http://vmplanet.net/
These guys seem to have vm creation and distribution as a side-project to their main line of business: http://www.quotrader.com/
http://www.bitconstructor.com/
但是highest-voted的答案如下：
You can find many VMs on VMware’s site.
Open the site and go to “Virtual Appliances”; Ubuntu LTS 11.4 is one of the many images there.
The newest Ubuntu 11.04 VMware appliance starts out of the box with a desktop looking like Gnome 2.x, but can be transformed to start the Unity desktop from Ubuntu. Contrary to the basic Ubuntu 11.04 image this one has the latest VMware Tools installed.
注意：VMware’s site似乎也有Ubuntu 12.04，包括桌面和服务器版本，但它是VMWare商店，你必须购买它。
OP还增加了：
just make sure you have installed the latest vmware player so you don’t have problems like I had with vmplayer not being able to run an virtual image made with a newer version.
次佳解决办法
有一个官方的地方，ubuntu分发它的云图像(包括ovf格式)：
https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/
例如，14.04(滚动到页面底部)：https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/trusty/current/
第三种解决办法
Hyper V有一些Ubuntu预设，见Run Ubuntu virtual machines made even easier with Hyper-V Quick Create
第四种办法
用于Fusion-5的VMWare工具不适用于Ubuntu 14.04LTS。 VMware建议使用Fusion-6构建Ubuntu 14.04映像并在Fusion-5上使用它。因此，找到安装了VMware工具的pre-built映像会很棒。
我找到了一个，似乎正在起作用：http://www.trendsigma.net/vmware/ubuntu1404t.html我只是不确定来源。