Manjaro on VirtualBox (Win11)

[raymac46]

I'm starting a new thread as I have now installed Manjaro on VirtualBox on Windows. As Josh pointed out in the EOS thread, Manjaro is quite a different beast from Arch and its derivatives. It does share the AUR and similar package management but has its own repos and does not update as often.

The idea is to see if Manjaro causes issues in VBox. If it does, I think we can rule out the distro as a source of corruption. HJ has had a stable Manjaro install for years but he is using a Linux-based VMM, Not VBox. VBox has more layers of abstraction and hardware simulation than a "normal" VMM does - hence more things to go wrong.

Preliminary observations:

1. Very fast download on a wired system, fast install in VBox.
2. Initial boot on virtual disk did not give a GUI - had to change to VBoxSVGA video to get it to show up.
3. Manjaro Xfce has quite an Industrial Strength appearance - EOS is much more attractive.
4. Manjaro uses pamac to update and access AUR - can be a GUI or terminal app. Both seem to work OK.

 

No problems so far but it's early days.

Edited November 23 by raymac46

[abarbarian]

Neat adventure your undertaking with the VBox it is certainly much better than endless sudoku puzzles. You will have to keep your guard up now that you have stepped into the dark side.

[raymac46]

Just updated 338 packages in Manjaro (1.3 GB.) Rebooted and everything looks OK.

System:
  Kernel: 6.11.10-2-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 Distro: Manjaro base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Virtualbox System: innotek GmbH product: VirtualBox v: 1.2
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Oracle model: VirtualBox v: 1.2 serial: <superuser required>
    BIOS: innotek GmbH v: VirtualBox date: 12/01/2006
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: 11th Gen Intel Core i7-11700 bits: 64 type: MCP
    arch: Rocket Lake rev: 1 cache: L1: 160 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 32 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2496 min/max: N/A cores: 1: 2496 2: 2496 bogomips: 9986
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
Graphics:
  Device-1: InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH VirtualBox Graphics Adapter
    vendor: VMware driver: vboxvideo v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0
  Display: x11 server: X.org v: 1.21.1.14 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
    gpu: vboxvideo resolution: 1920x974~60Hz
  API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: swrast platforms: active: x11,surfaceless,device
    inactive: gbm,wayland
  API: OpenGL v: 4.5 vendor: mesa v: 24.2.7-arch1.1 glx-v: 1.4
    direct-render: yes renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 18.1.8 256 bits)
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801AA AC97 Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_intel8x0
    v: kernel bus-ID: 00:05.0
  API: ALSA v: k6.11.10-2-MANJARO status: kernel-api
  Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.2.7 status: active
Network:
  Device-1: Intel 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet driver: e1000 v: kernel port: d020
    bus-ID: 00:03.0
  IF: enp0s3 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI type: network bridge
    driver: piix4_smbus v: N/A port: N/A bus-ID: 00:07.0
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 20.15 GiB used: 11.16 GiB (55.4%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: VirtualBox model: VBOX HARDDISK size: 20.15 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 19.66 GiB used: 11.16 GiB (56.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  Src: lm-sensors+/sys Message: No sensor data found using /sys/class/hwmon
    or lm-sensors.
Info:
  Memory: total: 6 GiB available: 5.77 GiB used: 1.46 GiB (25.3%)
  Processes: 197 Uptime: 2m Init: systemd
  Packages: 1087 Compilers: gcc: 14.2.1 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.37 inxi: 3.3.36
[ray@ray-virtualbox ~]$ 

 

[Hedon James]

4 hours ago, raymac46 said:

Just updated 338 packages in Manjaro (1.3 GB.) Rebooted and everything looks OK.

System:
  Kernel: 6.11.10-2-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 Distro: Manjaro base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Virtualbox System: innotek GmbH product: VirtualBox v: 1.2
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Oracle model: VirtualBox v: 1.2 serial: <superuser required>
    BIOS: innotek GmbH v: VirtualBox date: 12/01/2006
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: 11th Gen Intel Core i7-11700 bits: 64 type: MCP
    arch: Rocket Lake rev: 1 cache: L1: 160 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 32 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2496 min/max: N/A cores: 1: 2496 2: 2496 bogomips: 9986
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
Graphics:
  Device-1: InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH VirtualBox Graphics Adapter
    vendor: VMware driver: vboxvideo v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0
  Display: x11 server: X.org v: 1.21.1.14 driver: X: loaded: modesetting
    gpu: vboxvideo resolution: 1920x974~60Hz
  API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: swrast platforms: active: x11,surfaceless,device
    inactive: gbm,wayland
  API: OpenGL v: 4.5 vendor: mesa v: 24.2.7-arch1.1 glx-v: 1.4
    direct-render: yes renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 18.1.8 256 bits)
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 82801AA AC97 Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_intel8x0
    v: kernel bus-ID: 00:05.0
  API: ALSA v: k6.11.10-2-MANJARO status: kernel-api
  Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.2.7 status: active
Network:
  Device-1: Intel 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet driver: e1000 v: kernel port: d020
    bus-ID: 00:03.0
  IF: enp0s3 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI type: network bridge
    driver: piix4_smbus v: N/A port: N/A bus-ID: 00:07.0
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 20.15 GiB used: 11.16 GiB (55.4%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: VirtualBox model: VBOX HARDDISK size: 20.15 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 19.66 GiB used: 11.16 GiB (56.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  Src: lm-sensors+/sys Message: No sensor data found using /sys/class/hwmon
    or lm-sensors.
Info:
  Memory: total: 6 GiB available: 5.77 GiB used: 1.46 GiB (25.3%)
  Processes: 197 Uptime: 2m Init: systemd
  Packages: 1087 Compilers: gcc: 14.2.1 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.37 inxi: 3.3.36
[ray@ray-virtualbox ~]$ 

 

Interesting that your Manjaro VM looks like it has the same graphics driver as Endeavour, and possibly the same kernel?