How to Install Manjaro Linux in VirtualBox on Windows 10 | Beginners Guide
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Manjaro linux is a user friendly distro based on arch linux and deploys and offers a great user interface with tweaked desktop environments including xfce kde plasma and gnome they have a stable/semi rolling release model that they use and upkeep and they have a great community and support available if you need and on top of things it makes arch linux really easy to install on your computer instead of having to go through the normal arch linux terminal installation which makes Manjaro a great alternative if you want to use Arch Linux but not go through it's install complicated install process.
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you're a wizard man, when i did it on my own, i always got booted back into the live version of manjaro, but i just followed your tutorial and it worked like a charm!! cheers man, have a good one
Glad things worked out! Cheers.
This quite a good guide I have to say! You go to the point without rambling about unrelated things, you are clear in your explanations, you take your time, and you take advantage of down times, like when the installation is in process, to give further relevant information about Manjaro. All done in a pleasant and confident tone! Good job!
PS: For some reason I tried to install Manjaro on VirtualBox like yesterday and I encountered all sorts of strange problems, but by following your guide all seems to have gone smoothly. Don't know what was different but I'm gonna give you credits for that without any evidence to back it up!
Thanks so much for the awesome comment!! I'm glad everything worked out and you enjoyed the content. I'll keep it coming.
Your channel is the best for me to get things like this
Awesome to hear!! Thanks for supporting the channel =)
This linux distribution is so colorful 😄nycc video brother
Rishav hacx
- Haha you are right it is pretty colorful! I like it =D
I boot up Manjaro and everything is fine up until the prompts start showing up,around 7:43 in the video. Instead of it booting up, it gives me a message that says "kernel panic"(and other lines of text) and after that it simply stays in that state. I know this video is some months old but I wondered if you knew of some type of solution
Not sure why this is an issue. There's really nothing that has changed. I haven't and still don't have any issues installing on VBox. Usually that means that the operating system found something really wrong that it couldn't get past while starting. I would maybe try reinstalling and making sure my ISO wasn't corrupt just in case.
I've been running into this issue as well. I know the ISO is uncorrupted so its definitely an issue with virtualbox or Windows
@@JINORU_ From what I gathered this is an issue with Virtual Box. The only "fix" that I found was to use an older version of the ISO(I don't get the error while using older releases), then updating it from the terminal.
from raw hardcore debian to this, I'm feeling welcomed
:) glad to hear it
I better try this because Manjaro is the best linux distro for programming
Glad you enjoy it for programming =)
I follow the steps exactly as you do them. When it comes time to install the guest additions, "root actions" doesn't show. I run with the sudo command. At that point, it stops recognizing my alphanumeric inputs but recognises things such as return. When I exit, all my keystrokes are recognized again until I try to do anything in konsole via sudo when again, only alphanumeric are not recognised, rinse and repeat.
ok I figured out and feel dumb
@@hanagara1907 can you please let me know how you figured it out
@@souravsarkar4459 yeah if sudo it won't show any input but it's still taking your pw not all distros do that
@@hanagara1907 So the issue is I am a complete noob to linux so can you tell me what do you mean by "taking your pw" especially what does "pw" mean
@@souravsarkar4459 oh sorry, I meant password. So, not all distros but I know manjaro, if you type "sudo" and it asks for your password, it won't show anything but is still recognizing it, I hope I'm making sense?
Somehow I get started in the same screen as before after installing: boot with ... drivers. Did the instllation fail or something because I should get greated with a lock in screen.
Edit: You kindly answered the Problem: The VM will automatically eject the ISO after the install (on reboot). This is so you don't go back into the installer a second time.
So what if it breaks and I return to the Iso?
You can reinstall things over or start a new machine. Then smash the like button =D
@@SavvyNik Changing boot order for the Machine worked, however kind a slow ;)
Awesome to hear! Not sure why it'd be slow lol
@@SavvyNik It juat may be due to virtualmashines hardwarerestraints. Though boot times of 40 seconds seemed slow to me.
Choose one of those options. You didn't do anything wrong.
Thank you for the vídeo! It was really helpful.
You're welcome! Glad to hear it.
where did you get the guest additions from?
You can simply insert it using the virtual box menu for the virtual machine. It allows you to "attach the guest additions image"
@@SavvyNik i'm sorry but that still didn't answer my question, thanks anyway
@@tarezpoore9068 it's an option in virtualbox.
@@tarezpoore9068 it's installed with virtual box
I still can't make the resolution right in manjaro.😟
I changed the graphics controller to VBoxSVGA it worked for a while then it's stuck in a black screen.
Did you install the guest additions tools? That should fix your resolution issues.
@@SavvyNik Yes but whenever I chnge the resolution it says access denied and I don't know how to fix it.
I am actually a beginner but I'm trying different distors to switch from windows...and I like KDE Desktop environment the most(because of customisation and lightweight) and manjaro is the best for KDE but it's just doesn't works I installed it like 3-4times again and again.
Switched to kde neon now.
@@sauravdas5325 - It's weird that you cannot edit the settings with your user. It makes me think that your user isn't set up properly. You should not be blocked by the system to change resolution. I bet if you logged in as the root user and ran the settings that it would let you then. I've never come across an issue like this.
@@SavvyNik Ok I will try it but do I have to set the graphics controller in virtualbox to VBoxSVGA....cause when I set this virtualbox says it's invalid (but still I can save it) but when it's set VMSVGA(by default)...the manjaro tells me to switch to VBoxSVGA.
@@sauravdas5325 - No I think that's just a visual bug. I've used both in the past w/o issue.
mine is stuck on invalid settings detected and i hvae tried everything in the system setting it says it is there but nothing worked
also dont have the setting in my bios for the 64 bit
@@uzia8960 You need to turn virtual hypervisor support on inside your BIOS. Look for something like AMD-V or VT-X and enable it.
Hello! Can anyone help me with this issue I'm facing? When I install manjaro on my vm, it installs normally. But, once it is complete and asks to restart, I restart it and the machine closes and when I open it again, it asks me to install manjaro again. Please help!
Remove the virtual disk after installation is complete
@@SavvyNik Can you please tell me how to do that? Should I just delete the vhd file from its location? Sorry, I'm not very tech savvy. Thank you for your help.
No you'll open up your settings in virtualbox for the manjaro virtual machine. You'll find a section called virtual disk / optical disk -> this is what emulates your cdrom and then you should see the manjaro iso image still in there. Remove it.
@@SavvyNik Thanks for the help!
Awesome.. Thanks.. By the way can we do channel bonding in this virtual machine
You're welcome. I'm not sure what you mean by channel bonding.
I want to switch to linux. But I'm not that used to using it. So, I'll just learn Linux using the VM
The issue I somehow ran into, is that despite getting past installing Manjaro on VirtualBox, once its restarted, it still brings me back to installing it again. What am I doing different, and how do I fix that issue?
You probably need to go back into the virtual machine settings and confirm that the virtual (optical) CD ROM disk was unmounted. Otherwise the system will try and boot into the wrong place.
@@SavvyNik At a future point in time, you are free to a tutorial video on how its done. The thing is I don't know how to do it. LOL.
The guest additions issue is what cripples Manjaro in Virtualboxes. It almost never works right.
@spatrick1964 - Interesting.. Thanks for letting me know I'm going to have to check it out and see if I can't get it to install then.
I second that. I specifically searched for this video for insight on how to overcome this challenge (after exhausting google). No easy steps for a newbie switcher like me. Let me articulate the issue:
I want to use Manjaro as Guest on Virtualbox. I need to install "Vbox Guest Additions" to enable Shared folders with my Host Machine. "Vbox Guest Additions" runs and installs on all other (ubuntu) distros when followed with the "sudo adduser $USER vboxsf" command. On Manjaro, this is not working! And its such a shame (For me) that this specific issue was teased but not discussed in this video :(
@@mtruo001 I'm not sure where my comment disappeared. Anyway, I got it working on the XFCE edition and came back to say it works on KDE as well. Also, it seems that the newest version (21.1.5) already has Guest Additions installed. So, these are the three lines I had to use:
1. sudo gpasswd -a $USER vboxsf
(adds the user to the vboxsf group; substitute $USER with your username)
2. sudo systemctl enable --now vboxservice
(enables the vboxservice)
3. sudo chown -R $USER:vboxsf /media/sf_$FOLDER
(allows the user to access a shared folder; substitute /media/sf_$FOLDER with your own path to the shared folder and the variable $FOLDER with its name)
Hope it works for you too.
Can someone help? I'm trying to run the VBoxLinuxAdditions.run in the terminal but i get message: This program must be run with administration privileges. Aborting. Any ideas how could i solve this problem? Thx
put sudo in front of the command.
@@SavvyNik It says sudo: VBoxLinuxAdditions.run: command not found
gonna try this out😋
@kshly - Great to hear ^^
I only have 6 Gb of ram, so if I use at least 2 gb of ram for this would that mean my windows 10 os would only be able to run on 4 gb of ram??
It can but it will be slower.
It should run just fine. Manjaro requires only 1gb of ram.
I followed all the steps until 12:30 but after i put my password the screen just went dark and nothing happens, what can I do?
Same problem
Mine looks so stretchy
Any ideas how to solve or make it better?
just turn off scale mode
ik i told u so early
I use arch, btw
When i let the timer go it just goes black
very helpful
Glad you think so!
Do I need to enable anything in the bios like cpu virtualization
If get an error during the startup for the VM, this should suggest you should do so if you haven't done it before.
I can't full screen please help me.
It might be that you don't have the guest additions tools installed yet. Here's a video if your resolution is off: ua-cam.com/video/xGJk-df4fbM/v-deo.html
is XFCE more efficient than KDE Plasma
I'd go with whichever layout you like more. If you're asking which is more "minimal" XFCE.
I dont have the option of root actions in my Manjaro. Why is that?
Are you sure you setup a root user during the install process?
I mean you do it in the video
what is system requirements ?
I use arch
it keeps telling me to install it again after i already install it and reboot it
Make sure to eject the ISO (install image) after finishing the install.
Root options?
@TheRangeControl - Sorry I'm not sure what you are asking about?
@@SavvyNik The part where you pulled up the menu to access the VboxLinux file in the Terminal. You said something like "Root Options" or "Root Actions" or something. I don't have a Root Actions in my menu. I didn't even have conventional terminal but "Konsole". Did you add anything or adjust anythng which you didn't show us?
@@TheRangeControl - I think what you're referring to is that you need root privileges in order to run the guest additions install. Just type sudo before the commands and that should allow you to run the file as a super user. Or just login as root use "sudo su" and type in the password for your root user. (You create this password during the install process)
@@SavvyNik I'm new to Linux and following along. How do I get it on the menu like you have it?
@@TheRangeControl - Perhaps you are talking about the terminal? (CTRL+ALT+T) or search for it inside the applications by typing terminal and launching it. Otherwise I think you might be talking about the menu from VirtualBox that allows you get the guest additions cd attached. You can get that menu by going into full screen mode with VirtualBox view->full screen or CTRL+F and then the menu should be at the bottom if you hover the mouse over it.
I just get kernel panic every time
Same here, did you find a solution?
"I see your running gnome,
I'm more into old school kde"
invalid settings detected