Comments on: Notes on setting up Arch Linux in VirtualBox with Awesome wm

By: hgrimelid

hgrimelid — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:02:33 +0000

I haven’t done any testing on that. This was more of an experiment, so I’ve only used this setup for a couple of hours. Sorry.

By: Symen Timmermans

Symen Timmermans — Mon, 24 May 2010 22:57:53 +0000

Please tell us how fast your virtual arch/awesome machine is. I run it natively and I’m not going back to anything less minimalistic.

By: Ritesh Nadhani

Ritesh Nadhani — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 09:14:06 +0000

Thank you. I have been trying to get xmonad on my VirtualBox for the last 5 hours and finally it worked. The key was to add: 98vboxadd-xclient to xinitrc.

By: Lauri Laine

Lauri Laine — Wed, 20 May 2009 12:34:23 +0000

Hi pitulloz!

You can get the internet working by editing /etc/rc.conf like this:

eth0=”dhcp”
INTERFACES=(eth0)
ROUTES=(!gateway)

Remeber to restart networking after changing the config:

/etc/rc.d/network restart

Hope that helps!

By: pitulloz

pitulloz — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 04:37:09 +0000

i have installed arch on virtualbox winxp host, but i can’t connect to internet. My Host setting is:

IP address: 192.168.0.4
Subnet mask: 255.255.255.224
default gateway: 192.168.0.30

can you help me?

By: Nate

Nate — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 07:02:56 +0000

Thank you!

By: Anonymous bin Ich

Anonymous bin Ich — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:57:05 +0000

Got it! Forgot to replace vesa and mouse with vboxvideo and vboxmouse repectively in xorg.conf…

By: Anonymous bin Ich

Anonymous bin Ich — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:04:02 +0000

Hi!

I have tried everything you said, but I have two problems:

1) There was nothing like 98vboxadd-xclient! So I removed it from .xinitrc. I am using VirtualBox 2.0.6 for that matter.

2) Mouse and keyboard don’t work after I start X using “startx”

Any idea?