It is also recommended to install the virtualbox-guest-iso package on the host running VirtualBox. To use the USB ports of your host machine in your virtual machines, add users that will be authorized to use this feature to the vboxusers user group. Note: If the VirtualBox kernel modules were loaded in the kernel while you updated the modules, you need to reload them manually to use the new updated version. scripts/sign-file sha1 certs/signing_key.pem certs/signing_key.x509 $module done # for module in `ls /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/misc/` do. Navigate to your kernel tree folder and execute the following command: When using a custom kernel with CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORCE option enabled, you must sign your modules with a key generated during kernel compilation. When either VirtualBox or the kernel is updated, the kernel modules will be automatically recompiled thanks to the DKMS pacman hook. To compile the VirtualBox modules provided by virtualbox-host-dkms, it will also be necessary to install the appropriate headers package(s) for your installed kernel(s) (e.g.

for any other kernel (including linux-lts), choose virtualbox-host-dkms.for the linux kernel, choose virtualbox-host-modules-arch.You will also need to choose a package to provide host modules:

In order to launch VirtualBox virtual machines on your Arch Linux box, follow these installation steps.

In order to integrate functions of the host system to the guests, including shared folders and clipboard, video acceleration and a seamless window integration mode, guest additions are provided for some guest operating systems. It comes with a Qt GUI interface, as well as headless and SDL command-line tools for managing and running virtual machines. VirtualBox is in constant development and new features are implemented continuously. VirtualBox is a hypervisor used to run operating systems in a special environment, called a virtual machine, on top of the existing operating system.

Moving an existing install into (or out of) a virtual machine.

VirtualBox/Install Arch Linux as a guest.

Virtualbox guest additions