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→‎Selecting a Display Controller: simplified paragraph - added trouble shooting for Manjaro - added guest configuration

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 {{Tip | '''Graphics''': '''128MB''', '''VBoxSVGA''', '''Enable 3D Acceleration'''.}}
-Once it is installed run the following command to ensure the kernel modules are installed and install the guest utils:
+If you follow these recommendattion the kernel modules the necessary packages are installed by mhwd.
- pamac install virtualbox-guest-utils $(pacman -Qsq "^linux" | grep "^linux[0-9]*[-rt]*$" | awk '{print $1"-virtualbox-guest-modules"}' ORS=' ')
+=== Trouble shooting ===
+If you deem it necessary to ensure the packages are installed please follow this recipe
+ ~ >>> mhwd-kernel -li
+ Currently running: 5.4.0-1-MANJARO (linux54)
+ The following kernels are installed in your system:
+    * linux54
+ ~ >>> sudo pacman -Syu virtualbox-guest-utils linux54-virtualbox-guest-modules
+=== Guest Configuration ===
 You will need to load the modules if you don't want to reboot:
   sudo modprobe vboxguest vboxvideo vboxsf
-Add you VM user to the vboxsf group
- sudo gpasswd -a $USER vboxsf
 The guest utils than need to be started and enabled:
   sudo systemctl enable --now vboxservice.service
+Add you VM user to the vboxsf group (this requires you to logout to apply the new group)
+ sudo gpasswd -a $USER vboxsf
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