#Install virtualbox arch install#
#Install virtualbox arch iso#

I now had the shared folder on the desktop but I could not open it from my user account. I ran the “./n” again and a “/sbin/rcvboxadd start” and rebooted the VM. The first run was ok, but I then had to use “pacman -S kernel 5.16.2-arch1-1 gcc”, one was for the kernel headers and gcc was for perl.

#Install virtualbox arch iso#

I booted the Arch VM and the iso appeared on the desktop, I then cd to the “/run/media/daniel/VBox_GAs_6.1.32” and used ls and then used “./n”. I used the host drive in VirtualBox and placed the iso in the host cdrom. Although Arch has a candidate forĭownloading a “virtualbox-guest-iso”, it really is of no use, I did download the “virtualbox-guest-additions-iso 6.1.32-1” from VirtualBox. “virtualbox-guest-additions”, and that is where the fun starts. Install, but that is only good for the “VMware/VirtualBox graphics driver”, one still needs the Arch has the “virtualbox-guest-utils” that one must It all starts on howĪrch and VirtualBox interacts with each other. Hi nevj, not really an oversight, more like a determined old man, refusing to give up. This is how I have learned LInux, I always use a VM before a hard install. I am hoping that some of our Linux geeks might have a solution for the shared folder access. I have never tried to access a printer from a VM, that is what Windows is for. When Arch or Gentoo is installed to either HDD or SDD they are able to access other filesystems.

I do not know of any VM, that would make it easy, toĪccess other drives and their filesystem, it might can be done, but that is over my head. With Arch I am having to use a thumb drive for data transfer. With Gentoo I am able to access the shared folder, to transfer files from Windows. ext2, and was used to isolate the boot from the / root, times have changed.

#Install virtualbox arch install#

The two are similar but also very different, the install time between the two is very different. My main reason for installing Arch, was to compare it with Gentoo, that is also running in a VM. The /boot was just something to try, and it worked, but Arch would be just as happy to run in one /mnt root partition, with maybe few GB for the swap I used to run ArchĪ few years ago, in dual boot with W7, but those days are gone. I have spent the better part of two days trying to get Arch to run in a VirtualBox install.