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Intro

• This is about creating an Ubuntu on Azure
• Particularly one with a GPU running OV

Creation

• Go to Create Resource and Create a VM
• Using Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS -x64 Gen 2
• Been using: (Standard_N36ads_)A10_v5 - 36 vcpus, 440 GiB Memory (price unavailable)
• Price on right is 3036.80 per month, or about 5 dollars an hour
• Go through all the tabs !!!
  • think about the name - you can’t change it later
  • it is case insensitive so use lower case
  • disable secure boot
  • Need bigger disk than 30 GB (using 256 at 41 per month) as this is hard to change
  • Make sure you put it in the right VNET (you can’t change that either)

  • Download the key and copy it to c:/users/mwise/.ssh

  • now start wsl and copy it to ~/.ssh
    • cp /mnt/c/Users/mwise/.ssh/vmname_key.pem ~/.ssh
  • change the read settings because otherwise ssh will complain
    • chmod 400 vmname_key.pem
  • might want to add a login command to ~/bin
    • ssh -i ~/.ssh/vmname_key.pem azureuser@10.0.0.5
  • Have to do this to calm down mim attack warning
    • ssh-keygen -f "/home/mike/.ssh/known_hosts" -R "10.0.0.5"

Start it and login from your wsl (preferably)

• You might need to set up the Azure VPN first
• If you can’t login look at the firewall rules under Settings / Networking in left menu
• See if there are any deny for port 22

Install XRDP

• To get RDP working: (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/use-remote-desktop?tabs=azure-cli)
• The Nvidia driver install script below must be run after XRDP
• If XRDP gets upgraded, you might need to reinstall the nvidia drivers ```

  Install xfce using apt (takes awhile - maybe 5-10 minutes)

  sudo apt-get update sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -y install xfce4 sudo apt install xfce4-session

Install and configure a remote desktop server

sudo apt-get -y install xrdp sudo systemctl enable xrdp

Tell xrdp what desktop environment to use

echo xfce4-session >~/.xsession

Restart the xrdp service

sudo systemctl restart xrdp

Set a login password

(usually configured to use only ssh certificate login at initialization, but that doesn’t work with xrdp)

sudo passwd azureuser

Now you can RDP into the machine (use the ip directly) and azureuser/passwd

You can open a terminal with right-click

There are app icons at the bottom

If there is no browswer installed do the following

sudo apt install firefox

# Install Edge (needed for Intune)
- download deb file from: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/?cs=3457492030&form=MA13FJ
- `cd ~/Downloads`
- `sudo dpkg -i microsoft-edge*`
- to start: `/opt/microsoft/msedge/msedge https://google.com`
- or right click and look under "Applications" and then "Internet"
- Clean it up by turning off the feed and quick links
   -  Look for the gear icon (page settin) it is on the actual web page in the upper right
   -  Click on it
   -  Change the region to English United States
   -  Change the content feed to "None"
   -  Change the "Quick Links" to "None"
- You can find it in the m

# Install Nvidia device drivers
- Can look for Nvidia Extension (see screenshot)
- Script that works for installing NVIDIA drivers:
- Should be installed after XRDP (and after XRDP gets upgraded)

#!/bin/bash sudo apt update sudo apt install -y build-essential GRID_DRIVER_URL=”https://download.microsoft.com/download/8/d/a/8da4fb8e-3a9b-4e6a-bc9a-72ff64d7a13c/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-535.161.08-grid-azure.run” GRID_DRIVER_FILE=”NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-535.161.08-grid-azure.run” wget $GRID_DRIVER_URL -O $GRID_DRIVER_FILE sudo chmod +x $GRID_DRIVER_FILE sudo sh $GRID_DRIVER_FILE CUDA_TOOLKIT_URL=”https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/12.0.0/local_installers/cuda_12.0.0_525.60.13_linux.run” CUDA_TOOLKIT_FILE=”cuda_12.0.0_525.60.13_linux.run” wget $CUDA_TOOLKIT_URL -O $CUDA_TOOLKIT_FILE sudo sh $CUDA_TOOLKIT_FILE –silent –toolkit –override

Set environment variables

echo ‘export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/cuda-12.0/bin’ » ~/.bashrc echo ‘export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/cuda-12.0/lib64’ » ~/.bashrc

Source the updated bashrc to apply changes

source ~/.bashrc

Verify installations

nvidia-smi nvcc -V echo “Installation complete. Please reboot and verify that the GRID driver and CUDA toolkit have been installed successfully.”

WARNING: The lines below were removing the just-installed drivers and had a broken sed command.

They have been commented out. If you need to remove nvidia/cuda, do so intentionally.

sudo apt-get remove –purge $(dpkg –get-selections | grep -i nvidia | cut -f1)

sudo apt-get remove –purge $(dpkg –get-selections | grep -i cuda | cut -f1)

sed -i PATH=”$PATH:/usr/local/cuda-12.0/bin” > # broken sed command

echo ‘export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/cuda-12.0/lib64’ » ~/.bashrc

sudo reboot

# the following didn't work
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/n-series-driver-setup
- `sudo apt update`
- `sudo apt upgrade`
- `sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y ubuntu-drivers-common`
- `sudo ubuntu-drivers install`
- `sudo reboot`
- `ping 10.0.0.5`



# Install intune-portal
- You will need this if you need to grab a Microsoft 2FA auth repo
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/user-help/microsoft-intune-app-linux

sudo apt install curl gpg

Ubuntu 22.04 only

curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | gpg –dearmor > microsoft.gpg sudo install -o root -g root -m 644 microsoft.gpg /usr/share/keyrings/ sudo sh -c ‘echo “deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/microsoft.gpg] https://packages.microsoft.com/ubuntu/22.04/prod jammy main” > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/microsoft-ubuntu-jammy-prod.list’

sudo apt update sudo apt install intune-portal intune-portal ```

• if it gets confused try rebooting (sudo reboot)
• do not sudo apt upgrade after adding the gpg signature - this might break things
• if it works you will see the device under https://myaccount.microsoft.com/device-list

Install Edge