In theory there are simpler ways to achieve the synchronization goal (like using SNTP) but I’ve not been able to do they work properly. This setup causes the hardware clock to be re-synchronised every 11 minutes. I install the ntp package (which contains an NTP server and client) and start it as a service every time the system boots but I don’t setup my system as an NTP server. The following works fine for me:Ĭreated symlink from /etc/systemd/system//rvice to /usr/lib/systemd/system/rvice There are several options for getting the time synchronized. For instance you can see time delays on your virtual machine if the host system goes to sleep. It is an important topic on a virtual machine because the CPU is shared among several systems. Now let’s pay attention to the time synchronization. We logon again and check the network connection using the ping command: We can achieve this goal if we start the DHCP as a service:Ĭreated symlink from /etc/systemd/system//rvice to /usr/lib/systemd/system/rvice Next thing is to automatically connect to the Internet when the system boots. You can find more information about how to configurate the keyboard in console here. This configuration is persistent and also applies to the current session. Which set the value of the KEYMAP variable in the /etc/nf file: In my case (Spanish layout) I have to run the command: If your keyboard layout is English you have to do nothing but if it is not then you need to setup the proper keyboard layout. The first thing to do is to be sure that you can use the keyboard.

So we logon as root and continue our work. Now we are going to see how to setup Arch Linux for running smoothly on the virtual machine. We created and setup the virtual machine and installed the Arch Linux. In the last entry we began to see howto install Arch Linux on a VM VirtualBox.

Install arch linux on virtualbox