Manjaro On HyperV

steps.md

What I needed to do to install Manjaro 19.0 KDE on Hyper-V

• After initial bootup, need to change the video driver
  • wait for bootup to complete, takes a few minutes, then Control+F2 to change to console
  • run the following commands:

  su
  pacman -Sy
  pacman -S xf86-video-fbdev
  systemctl start sddm
  

  • the display manager should start now and you can complete the installation
• Power down the vm after the installation, remove the ISO image in the settings, and power back on the vm.
• Give the system a few minutes to come back online, then Control+F2 once again. We need to install xrdp and xorgxrdp via the Microsoft github
• Log in using the account you set up in the installation
• Run the following commands:

sudo pacman -Sy
sudo pacman -S git
git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/linux-vm-tools
cd linux-vm-tools/arch

• Currently, the xorgxrdp package is not compilable without some changes - so before we run the makepkg.sh command edit makepkg.sh to prevent removal of the $TEMPDIR directory (comment out the last line).
• Go ahead and run ./makepgk.sh after that, to grab the proper packages and attempt the build.
• If both packages build, then awesome. Otherwise....
  • I have needed to fix the xrdpMouse.c file, changing the WM_BUTTON[8,9][UP,DOWN] case statements back to a prepatched state. Replace them with the integers 115,116,117,118.
  • From within the temp build directory, edit the PKGBUILD to comment out the source line.
  • Run makepkg -si --skipinteg, which prevents the command from complaining about the checksums being different.
  • After that, both xrdp and xorgxrdp should be installed
• Back into the linux-vm-tools/arch directory, run sudo ./install.sh
• Now to make some changes to the ~/.xinitrc file
  • Near the top of the file, change the DEFAULT_SESSION=startkde to DEFAULT_SESSION=startplasma-x11
  • Change local dbus_args=(--sh-syntax --exit-with-session) to local dbus_args=(--sh-syntax)
• If you also want audio to work, we need to install a couple more things
  • sudo pacman -S yay to install the yay package manager
  • yay pulseaudio-module-xrdp to install the audio forwarder.
• Shutdown the vm.
• Open an Admin Powershell prompt and run set-vm -vmname <vmnamehere> -EnhancedSessionTransportType HvSocket
• Power back on and you should be prompted with an RDP session window. It may take some time to show up.
• If you need to get back to a terminal, re-enable VMBus with set-vm -vmname <vmnamehere> -enhancedsessiontransporttype vmbus

I did additional install of gdm and sddm and then I was able to see the graphical ui, after second login

See here https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/Install_Display_Managers

sudo pacman -S gdm
sudo pacman -S sddm

sudo systemctl restart lightdm

Then two logins and able to see the desktop and proceed with the installation, maybe recent manjaro needs some additional deps that sudo pacman -S lightdm does not resolve

Also, be sure you have Type 2 VMs and you boot without proprietary drivers first

An additional note to self here: lately, due to package requirements of xorgxrdp-git, I have needed to install xrdp-devel-git instead of plain xrdp. This has worked in at least one case.