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New versionSee #176 (reply in thread) for an updated version for Omarchy 2.x and later by @Abdullah-3 Old (Omarchy 1.x) version
This worked well for me (using VirtualBox 7.8.18_Ubuntu r162988 on PopOS 22.04) with Omarchy 1.x (before dedicated Omarchy ISO) 1. VM Creation
2. Omarchy Install
3. Set Screen Resolution
Other tipsTo jump into another TTY in VirtualBox to get a terminal you should use |
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Hi @matsest Same settings worked on Virtualbox 7.1.10 r16911 on Windows 10. Especially following made Alacritty, Ghostty, and hyprlock work.
This made my day! Thank you. Note: Note:
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Thank you for this guide. There's a typo: virtualbox-guets-utils-nox I had to add "video=VGA-1:1920x1080@60" to my GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT to get it to work. My monitors.conf has the line monitor=,1920x1080@60,0x0,1 (don't know if that's necessary or not). It's critical to have GDK_SCALE,1 in monitors.conf, else you won't even be able to open a terminal. |
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Thank you for the guide! I was wondering are 3D acceleration and hardware acceleration different? You say to leave 3D acceleration unchecked, but in this guide they are saying you can't run hyperland without it. #452 What am I missing? Cheers |
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If you're uisng Windows 11 Hyper V Manager, the free VM from MSFT, was painless and easy to do. Only major change I had to do was to modify the monitor,config file in Omarchy, per the Omarchy manual, and the Hyper V Manager. All works great except Audio throughput. |
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Is anybody using this guide ? It seems that grub is not longer used and has been replaced with limine so the instructions need to be updated ... |
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My VirtualBox config was opening browser on Super+B and the AI on Super+A, but nothing else was opening up. Thought it was an installation issue, but setting |
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It will be great to have an ISO optimised for VM |
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8192 GB RAM😱 |
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Hey I am trying to run Omarchy on Oracle VM as well. However, I have ran into an issue where the key bindings are not being read. I went into the bindings.conf through tty and changed SUPER -> LCTRL+ALT to see if that was the issue but still nothing. Any suggestions or ideas on how to get this working and running as expected? Also, I am using the latest ISO from the omarchy website (v. 3.0.1) |
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This helped a TON, you cannot believe how easy it was with this as a beginner |
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So I noticed that on the lastest release, the Monitor config for hyprland was configured for the retina-class 2x displays by default, breaking the scale for VirtualBox where you do not have Guest Additions installed yet. This is cause without the GuestAdditions, you do not have resizeable or fullscreen VBox Windows. The Scaling effectively breaks half the Screen. I fixed this simply by finding the Monitors file, opening it in LazyVim and uncomment the 1x scale, and simultaneously commenting the 2x retina-class Settings. Is this something worth mentioning in an issue report seperately? Since its not directly an OS issue and only for VirtualBox/VMs in general that might run into this. On the other hand, its a simple fix by just having the monitor config be shipped with 1x scaling instead of 2x Edit: #2144 |
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For anyone wondering - to
This boots onto the OS instead of the ISO, as the latter has already been installed. |
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has anyone having lagging peroblem with the virtual maching |
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Yeah... this happens if you configure Limine wrong, and ya boot it up |
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Can someone create the VM, install the internet, and fix the screen issue, then post a OneDrive link here for those of us who can't get it to work? |
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UpdateI quickly did a PR for the VirtualBox/VirtualMachine Hyprland Display Scaling Issue, since noone was rlly looking at my Issue for an easy fix, for more Info check here: #2511 |
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I opened dedicated issue #2513 for the QEMU scaling issue |
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i accidently nuked my whole system and i only have omarchy now , i think its worth it as my widows was lacking updates 😄 . one of the thing i want to mention is please make the selection of drive more easy when you are dual booting. although the os is not target to be run in virtual box , please make it possible as the requirement is insane to be run in virtualbox. |
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i install omarchy on VMware workstation but after i loged in, my superkey isent working. |
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The superkey combos arent working in virtualbox. Not able to open any menu, launcher and terminal to even change the keybindings. |
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VirtualBox is a powerful, free/open-source, multi-platform virtualization software that can be used to create virtual machines (VMs). For many with existing setups on Windows, Mac or other Linux OSes this can be the first step into trying out Omarchy without additional hardware needed.
Feel free to share tips and tricks to use Omarchy on VirtualBox in this discussion.
(Created from issue #72)
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