The VirtualBox Guest Additions gives a performance boost and extra features to your hosts. Follow these steps to install this package on a GUI-less Ubuntu server guest.

W7 Theme for Ubuntu Brings Windows 7's Familiar GUI to Linux. Whitson Gordon. August 22, 2010 Linux: W7 Theme is a free script that skins your Linux desktop with a familiar Windows 7 look and feel.

VMWare emulates an AMD PCNet32 NIC for guests, it never gets access go the hardware and if you have the NIC enabled in the VMWare config it should get detected on bootup automatically ...

Using Linux isn't just about the command line, and that includes the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). If you'd rather have a GUI to install packages and apps from, you're in luck.