This repo contains a stripped-down of the dotfiles repo intended for easy setup of VMs.
To install only the config files, follow the directions in dotfiles.
To do a full setup, run ./install_full.sh. You will need to enter the password for sudo. This setup assumes you are using Ubuntu.
Altogether:
$ sudo apt-get install git
$ git clone https://github.com/mark-i-m/dotfilesvm.git && cd dotfilesvm
$ ./install_full.sh
If you are on Arch, then you will also need to manually start X. The x directory has the appropriate scipts.