when installing on virtualox we have to install Guest Additions, to be able to improve image resolution and better control of the mouse. : - first way: from terminal pacman -S virtualbox-guest-utils => for VirtualBox Guest utilities with X support, then choose for the default linux kernel choose virtualbox-guest-modules-arch and for non-default kernels choose virtualbox-guest-dkms pacman -S virtualbox-guest-utils-nox => for VirtualBox Guest utilities without X support systemctl enable vboxservice reboot - second way: mount the VBoxGuestAdditions.iso on cdrom of virtualbox app mount /dev/cdrom /mnt => this will mount the cdrom cd /mnt ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run ======== NOTE: ======== we may need to have as graphical card VBoxVGA to be able to have full screen so go to the virtualbox app => arch vdi setting => display => choose as graphics controller VBoxVGA