How to do it...

Follow the steps in the recipe to configure Ubuntu with VMWare Fusion on macOS:

1. Once VMWare Fusion is up and running, click on the + button on the upper-left-hand side to begin the configuration process and select New..., as seen in the following screenshot:

2. Once the selection has been made, select the option to Install from Disk or Image, as seen in the following screenshot:

3. Select the operating system's iso file that was downloaded from the Ubuntu Desktop website, as seen in the following screenshot:

4. The next step will ask whether you want to choose Linux Easy Install. It is recommended to do so, as well as to incorporate a Display Name/Password combination for the Ubuntu environment, as seen in the following screenshot:

5. The configuration process is almost complete. A Virtual Machine Summary is displayed with the option to Customize Settings to increase the Memory and Hard Disk, as seen in the following screenshot:

6. Anywhere from 20 to 40 GB hard disk space is sufficient for the virtual machine; however, bumping up the memory to either 2 GB or even 4 GB will assist with the performance of the virtual machine when executing Spark code in later chapters. Update the memory by selecting Processors and Memory under the Settings of the virtual machine and increasing the Memory to the desired amount, as seen in the following screenshot: