Setting up Manjaro with VirtualBox

Make sure to download an iso of Manjaro. Manjaro Linux

Download VirtualBox

Virtualbox is a decent option, so I’m going with that for this exercise. Oracle VirtualBox

Also grabbing the extension pack while I’m at it. After installing, don’t forget to install the extension pack.

Build a VM

Launch VirtualBox and select “New” from the top menu.

First Time Launching VirtualBox

We know we are building for Manjaro, which is Arch linux.

Initial Settings for Manjaro Box

The hardware you are running will make an impact on how you set up the RAM allocation, personally I like to have a minimum of 4g

4g of ram

We need a hard drive, so create a virtual disk now.

create-a-disk

VTI format is fine for this, and to keep your system clean, dynamically allocated is a good choice. I’ll run with 64g for my drive so we can have some room to play.

disk settings

We do need to put our manjaro iso into our virtual disk drive, so let’s go into our Manjaro machine’s settings

open settings

From here go into the storage tab, then for the disk drive select to “choose a disk file”

insert your install disk

Now we can launch our machine and begin the install process.

( TO BE CONTINUED ) ( I have to disable hyper-v to continue with the tutorial and I just don’t want to right now )