This is how I like to Arch Linux.

Usage

Run create-box. It will ask a series of questions in order the create a new virtual machine suitable to install Arch Linux. Requires VirtualBox.

Once the machine is created you need to boot it with an Arch Linux image attached to an optical drive and then:

curl -LO https://github.com/tssm/arch-builder/archive/v3.1.tar.gz
tar -zxvf v3.1.tar.gz
cd arch-builder-3.0
# Edit the env file as desired
./build new

This will create the necessary partitions, prepare the filesystems and install a minimum list of packages. Don't expect the complete base group to be installed. I am pretty opinionated on it. Read the script to figure which packages will be installed.

The build vm command is what I run on new Arch Linux instances created by a cloud provider. It helps to set up some things and also romoves packages that I don't want. It expects a key.pub file on your home.