I have uploaded 3 Arch Linux Virtual Machines to Dropbox. One without any desktop environment (command line only), another with LXQT and a third with XFCE. You will need to create a new user since these VMs only contain the default “root” account with password “root”. If you’d rather install Arch Linux on VirtualBox from scratch, go here.

Download Links

• Arch Linux VM - No Desktop Environment
• Arch Linux VM - XFCE
  Login as root from the XFCE login prompt, open a command prompt and create a new user.
• Arch Linux VM - LXQT
  The login prompt you’ll see doesn’t allow root login by default, switch to a terminal using Ctrl+Alt+F2 and login as root and create a new user.

Creating a New User:

$ useradd  [username]
$ passwd  [username]
$ mkdir  /home/[username]
$ chown  -R  [username]:[username] /home/[username]

…for example:

$ useradd  tux
$ passwd  tux
$ mkdir  /home/tux
$ chown  -R  tux:tux  /home/tux

Adding a User to SUDOers

• I would also recommend adding the user you created above to the SUDOers list by using the visudo command to open sudo’s configuration file.
• Search for ”## User privilege specification” and below the configuration for root add your username: [username] ALL = (ALL) ALL