The VM is now created and configured so we can proceed with the Arch Linux installation. Click the Add CD button (the small CD with a plus sign picture) and virtually insert the previously downloaded ISO in the CD drive of the VM. it should look like this:Įventually we select the Storage tab. We go to the Shared Folders tab, enter the path of the shared folder and tip the auto-mount check box. Before setting up the shared folder it must be created on the host system. In the guest system it is a folder with the same name but living in the /media directory. In the host system it is seen as a regular folder. It will be useful to share data between the host and guest systems. Now we go to the General -> Advanced tab and setup the bidirectional clipboard.Īfterward we setup a shared folder. We click the Create button and then we start the setup of the VM by clicking the Settings button of the toolbar. The default size is 8 GB which is probably too small so we increase the size until 20GB. In the next screens we choose the disk type to be VDI and to allocate the space dynamically. The next step is to create a virtual hard drive. In my case the host system has 8GB so 2GB of RAM was a sensible choice for my VM.

Open the VirtualBox program, click the New button of the toolbar, write down the machine name, and choose the OS type and version.Ĭhoose the RAM size.

If you aren’t new to VirtualBox and know how to setup the machine described above you can skip the next section.Ĭreating and Configuring the Virtual Machine

shared folder: yes (remember that the shared folder must exist on the host system before setting this property).

hard drive type: VDI, dynamically allocated.

type of operating system: ArchLinux (64bit).

While the ISO is downloading you can create the virtual machine. The first thing to do is to download the latest Arch ISO. As the rest of the wiki it has a very high quality. My main source of documentation has been the excellent Arch Linux Installation Guide wiki. On this entry I’ll describe the steps I followed to successfully install Arch Linux on a VirtualBox virtual machine.

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