I recently upgraded to a new system, and instead of running Arch Linux natively I've decided to run it inside VirtualBox on Windows 10. Below I note down the steps I took, which closely follow the excellent wiki pages of archlinux. But along the way, I also noted a few other steps steps I took to make this system very comfortable, which you'll have to figure out for yourself if you like them or not!
I couldn't find a section on the Arch wiki where these steps are listed, perhaps they are obvious, but since I think I know what I'm doing I'm just going off script here (what a great start!).
- Start VirtualBox and click
New
- Name your machine, preferably with a descriptive but memorable name (e.g.,
exultant carpenter
), select typeLinux
, and versionArch Linux (64 bit)
(unless you downloaded the 32 bit version. A note on this, I recall in the past that for some machi