[arch-general] How to setup Xorg on VirtualBox?

Ionut Biru ibiru at archlinux.org
Sat Oct 15 10:27:16 EDT 2011


On 10/15/2011 05:21 PM, Jason wrote:
> I am a newbie of ArchLinux. I have installed Arch on VirtualBox (Running on
> windows 7), but unable to startx, does anyone know some instructions about
> this?


pacman -S xorg-server virtualbox-archlinux-guest xorg-xinit

modprobe vboxvideo

set up ~/.xinitrc
startx


Pretty easy:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#Installing
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux_VirtualBox_Guest

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Ionuț


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