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Arch Linux Installation Guide on QEMU/KVM

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Warning: If you are using Fedora be sure to add this to your network config

sudo nano /etc/libvirt/network.conf
 
firewall_backend = "iptables"

Partition the disk

fdisk -l
 
cfdisk /dev/<disk_to_partition>
  • Select gpt for label type
  • Create new partition
  • 500m for partition size, EFI System for type
  • Create new partition
  • 4G for partition size, Linux Swap for type
  • Create new partition
  • Remanining size for partition size, Linux filesystem for type
  • Select Write, type yes and select Quit
  • Check if the partition is ok
fdisk-l

Device /dev/vda1 /dev/vda2 /dev/vda3

Format the partitions

mkfs.ext4 /dev/vda3
mkfs.fat -F 32 /dev/vda1

Initialize the swap

mkswap /dev/vda2

Mount the file system

mount /dev/vda3 /mnt
mount --mkdir /dev/vda1 /mnt/boot
swapon /dev/vda2

Check partititons

lsblk

Pacman conf

nano /etc/pacman.conf

Uncomment ParallelDownloads = 5 Ctrl + O Enter Ctrl + X

Install essential packages

pacstrap -K /mnt base linux linux-firmware nano base-devel

Configure the system

Fstab

genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

Chroot

arch-chroot /mnt

Time

ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/_Region_/_City_  /etc/localtime
hwclock --systohc

Localization

nano /etc/locale.gen

Ctrl+W en_US Enter Uncomment(delete #) en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 Ctrl+O Enter Ctrl+X

Generate locale

locale-gen

Set the language

nano /etc/locale.conf

LANG=en_US.UTF-8

Host

nano /etc/hostname

user

Set password for root

passwd

Add permissions

useradd -m -G wheel -s /bin/bash user

Set password for user

passwd user
EDITOR=nano visudo

Uncomment this line by deleting #

%wheel ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

Edit Loader.conf

bootctl install
nano /boot/loader/loader.conf

default arch.com timeout 3 console-mode keep editor no

nano /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf

title arch linux /vmlinuz-linux initrd /initramfs-linux.img options root=/dev/vda3 rw

systemctl enable systemd-boot-update.service
pacman -Syu pipewire pipewire-alsa pipewire-pulse pipewire-jack wireplumber networkmanager 
systemctl enable NetworkManager.service

Check GPU

lspci

VGA compatible controller: Virtio GPU

pacman -S xf86-video-vesa mesa xorg-server plasma-meta kde-applications-meta sddm konsole dolphin kate
 
systemctl enable sddm.service --now

exit

unmount

reboot

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