VirtualBox Arch Guest

Quick Arch (Guest OS) installation on VirtualBox.

Arch linux iso

Download Arch iso from official page and launch a machine using iso image.

Disk partitioning

Legacy mode approach.

 cfdisk /dev/sda

Screen will look like this, dos label type should be selected.

Tabulated list:

Create partitions as following

Tabulated list:

Format and mount partitions

 mkswap /dev/sda2
 swapon /dev/sda2

 mkfs.ext2 /dev/sda1
 mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda3

 mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
 mkdir /mnt/boot
 mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot

Installing the system

Installing base packages

 pacstrap /mnt base linux-lts linux-firmware

Generating fstab

 genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

Result should look like this

Tabulated list:

Chroot

 arch-chroot /mnt

Time zone

 ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Region/City /etc/localtime
 hwclock --systohc

Localization

Edit /etc/locale.gen and uncomment en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 and other needed locales. Generate the locales by running

 locale-gen

Edit /etc/locale.conf

 LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Network

Edit /etc/hostname

 arch

Edit /etc/hosts

 127.0.0.1       localhost
 ::1             localhost
 127.0.0.1       arch.localdomain arch

Add dhcp

 pacman -S dhcpcd
 systemctl enable dhcpcd

Root password

 passwd

Boot loader

 pacman -S grub
 grub-install /dev/sda
 grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Add regular user

 useradd -m user
 gpasswd -a user group
 visudo
Or 
 useradd -m -G wheel -s /bin/bash user
 passwd user
 visudo

Post-install

Update

 sudo pacman -Syu

Install xorg

 sudo pacman -S xorg-server linux-lts-headers

VirtualBox

 sudo pacman -S virtualbox-guest-utils
 sudo systemctl enable vboxservice

KDE

 sudo pacman -S plasma-meta dolphin konsole
 sudo systemctl enable sddm

General purpose

 sudo pacman -S firefox vim git man spectacle unzip zsh