Installing ArchLinux as Host on Virutalbox

These are the following steps I followed to setup a minimal ArchLinux installation. The detailed instructions are present at the excellent wiki of Arch.

1. Downloaded the latest Net Install Image via torrent.
2. Created a 512MB and 16GB Virtual Drive in VirtualBox 5.1
3. Followed the steps to complete a minimal installation.
4. On reboot, I tried to install openbox with the command pacman -S openbox which failed with error: 
1. error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/extra/db'...
5. I ran the following command: pacman -Syy
6. Create an account using: adduser
1. Give the addional groups as 'audio,lp,optical,storage,video,wheel,games,power,scanner'
7. Now I was able to get the option
8. Do a system update: pacman -Syu
9. Installing LXDE 
1. # pacman -S lxde
2. Copying the config files to 
10. Installing slim
1. # pacman -S slim
11. After some command line fun, I eventually decided to install wicd for network management.

Post these steps I had a working after configuring /etc/rc.conf to include the services I need to run on boot.

Generate ssh keys

By default ssh-keygen generates a RSA private/public key pair.

To generate a DSA Key

ssh-keygen -t dsa -b 1024 

The option -t is for the type of encryption (dsa/rsa)
The option -b is for the number of bits for encryption (1024,2048 etc)