Failed to start Light Display Manager - Hyper-V Virtual Machine Installation

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Hello everyone, I’m new to the linux world, finding out a little about the best linux distro for programming I found highly recommended, Manajaro; and within the desktops I called my attention I3 Windows Manager.
I’m trying to install Manjaro I3 WINDOW MANAGER (X86_64 Architecture) manjaro-i3-22.0-230104-linux61, in a virtual machine in Hyper-V Manager (Version: 10.0.22621.1).
After the Boot with open source drivers process starts, this fault appears and the process remains in a kind of infinite loop.

[FAILED] Failed to start Light Display Manager
See 'systemctl status lightdm.service' for details.

From what I have read to solve this problem, I interrupted this loop and went into live environment mode and checked the status of lightdm.services, and got the following result.

[manjaro-i3 manjaro]# systemctl status lightdm.service
x lightdm.service - Light Display Manager
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/lightdm.service; enabled; preset: disabled )
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2023-03-30 07:16:41 UTC: 3min 10s ago
   Duration: 80ms
       Docs: man: lightdm(1)
    Process: 765 ExecStart=/usr/bin/lightdm (code-exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   Main PID: 765 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
        CPU: 93ms

Mar 30 07:16:41 manjaro-i3 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Mar 30 07:16:41 manjaro-i3 systemd[1]: Stopped Light Display Manager.
Mar 30 07:16:41 manjaro-i3 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Mar 30 07:16:41 manjaro-i3 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Mar 30 07:16:41 manjaro-i3 systemd[1]: Failed to start Light Display Manager.
[manjaro-i3 manjaro]# _

I even modified in the lightdm.conf file logind-check-graphical=true, but when I restart the installation process the initial failure reappears.

I thank you for any help you can give me to finish my installation and start my adventure with Manjaro Linux.

Best regards!

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hyper-v is unsupported - there is only very few brave hearted who ventured into this - please use the search :mag: function in upper right corner.

when the display manager fails to load it is likely caused by the display driver in use.

If you can switch to console - you can install all xorg drivers

sudo pacman -Syu xorg-drivers
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For hyper-v installation I know there is a dedicated versiin of Clear Linux. But honestly I’d rexommend to just install Manjaro in VirtualBox.

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Installation on a MS WIN 11 Pro OS works for me.
Two things seem to be important:

  • disable “secure boot” in the settings of your Manjaro-VM
  • Choose Generation 2 of virtual machine type

In the WIKI of archlinux you find a didicated article about the topic Hyper-V,
which is quite helpful in some details.

Open Points:
But I face two problems:

  1. Create a shared folder to a host-machine folder
  2. Access a removable USB storage

Especially the mounting of a host-machine folder from within the VM via cifs-utils would be nice.
My questions start with the appropriate mounting point, should it be:
/run/media/your_user_name/hyper-v
and how could it be achieved to automatically create this folder or rather:
/mnt/hyper-v?

In the first attempt I tried the static approach under /mnt/hyper-v.
Unfortunately, I fail to resolve the issue:
"mount.cifs: permission denied: no match for /mnt/hyper-v found in /etc/fstab"
Any idea what I should add inside /etc/fstab?

Screen-Size:
If you want to work with different window sizes of your VM screen you can install the package:
azure-cli

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