Install Arch Linux + EFI + Gnome in VMware player VM

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# Install Arch Linux on VMWare player 15
#
# References I used:
#
# Install Arch Linux on Dell XPS-13 (https://bit.ly/32P6t61): 
#   Has some of the BTRFS commands, but uses encryption.
# Install.txt file in Arch ISO image.
# 
# Arch Linux Installation and Configuration on UEFI Machines (https://bit.ly/2PtvIY1):
#   This tutorial includes same info as others, but also some network commands if you
#   get stuck without a network.
#
# How to install Gnome on Arch Linux (https://bit.ly/2MRPB96):
#   This one in addition to the official arch documentation for Gnome.
#
# Preliminary notes:
# To enable EFI on vmware player, create VM normally, then once created, 
# modify VMX file and include the following line:
firmware = "efi"
#
# You may also want to add a bios boot delay in case you need to boot back
# to the livecd ISO
bios.bootDelay = "9000"

#
# Boot in to VM by hooking up Arch Linux ISO:
#
# For cases where VM is booting into high dpi display.
# Set large font
setfont latarcyrheb-sun32
#
# Set root password and start sshd to connect from
# terminal in host
#
passwd
systemctl start sshd
#
# Get VM ip address
#
ip a
#
# Now, from host connect via ssh to root@address returned above.
#
# Sync clock
timedatectl set-ntp true

# Create three partitions:
cgdisk /dev/sda

# 1 1024MB EFI partition
#   Block size 2147484
#   Hex code ef00
#   Label boot
# 2 16396MB Swap partition
#   Block size 34359739
#   Hex code 8200
#   Label swap
# 3 100% Linux partition (to be encrypted)
#   Hex code 8300
#   Label root

# Formatting and encryption
mkfs.fat -F32 /dev/sda1

mkswap /dev/sda2
swapon /dev/sda2

mkfs.btrfs /dev/sda3
# Create btrfs subvolumes
mount -t btrfs /dev/sda3 /mnt
btrfs subvolume create /mnt/@root
btrfs subvolume create /mnt/@var
btrfs subvolume create /mnt/@home
btrfs subvolume create /mnt/@snapshots

# Mount btrfs subvolumes
umount /mnt
mount -o subvol=@root /dev/sda3 /mnt
mkdir /mnt/{var,home,.snapshots}
mount -o subvol=@var /dev/sda3 /mnt/var
mount -o subvol=@home /dev/sda3 /mnt/home
mount -o subvol=@snapshots /dev/sda3 /mnt/.snapshots

# Mount EFI partition
mkdir -p /mnt/boot/EFI
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot/EFI

# Change pacman mirror priority, move closer mirror to the top
vi /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
# Install the base system plus packages.
pacstrap /mnt base base-devel sudo linux

# Generate fstab
genfstab -L /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab

# Enter the new system via chroot
arch-chroot /mnt

# setup time
rm -f /etc/localtime
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Vancouver /etc/localtime
hwclock --systohc --utc

# Generate locales
sed --in-place -e 's/^#en_US.U/en_US.U/' /etc/locale.gen 
locale-gen
echo 'LANG=en_US.UTF-8' > /etc/locale.conf
echo 'KEYMAP=dvorak' > /etc/vconsole.conf
echo 'FONT=latarcyrheb-sun16' >> /etc/vconsole.conf
#
# Replace 'your-vm' by the hostname you want for your vm.
#
echo 'your-vm' > /etc/hostname
echo '127.0.0.1 localhost' >> /etc/hosts
cat /etc/hosts
echo '::1 localhost' >> /etc/hosts
echo '127.0.1.1 your-vm.localdomain your-vm' >> /etc/hosts
#
# Set root passwd
#
passwd
#
# Add a user. Replace 'user1' by your non-root login user.
useradd -m -g users -G wheel -s /bin/bash user1
passwd user1
echo 'user1 ALL=(ALL) ALL' > /etc/sudoers.d/user1
#
# Ok, tired of using sed.
#
pacman -S vim

pacman -Syu

pacman -S grub efibootmgr dosfstools os-prober mtools
pacman -S linux
grub-install --efi-directory=/boot/EFI --bootloader-id=GRUB --recheck
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

#
# Ssh server
#
pacman -S openssh
systemctl enable sshd
systemctl start sshd

cat > /etc/systemd/network/20-wired.network <<EOF
[Match]
Name=ens33

[Network]
DHCP=ipv4
EOF

systemctl enable systemd-networkd
systemctl start systemd-networkd
systemctl enable systemd-resolved
systemctl start systemd-resolved

#
# Gnome
#
pacman -S gnome
sudo systemctl enable gdm.service

# 
# Install open-vm-tools to get drag and drop clipboard
# Reference: https://bit.ly/31NlCDx
#
pacman -S open-vm-tools
systemctl enable vmtoolsd
systemctl start vmtoolsd

systemctl enable vmware-vmblock-fuse
systemctl start vmware-vmblock-fuse

#
# This seems to fix the autoresize problem
#
pacman -S xf86-video-vmware
#
# Exit chrooted environment
#
exit
umount -a
reboot