How-to build a initrd-virtio on a fully encrypted volume group
If like me you care about your data stored on your laptop, you certainly use a fully encrypted (excepted /boot) configuration based on lvm.
In my case I also like to create, build, fix packages locally with our tool osc. I’ve plenty of power, beefy ssd, so I dedicate a logical lvm for building cleanly package with qemu-kvm configuration, like obs does
Prepare the kvm building system
As root you create 2 lvm volume with lvcreate, one will be the build root, the other one will be the additional swap
In ~/.oscrc I enable the following parameters
build-type = kvm build-device = /dev/mapper/vg0-lvobsbuild build-swap = /dev/mapper/vg1-lvobsswap build-memory = 4096 build-vmdisk-rootsize = 16000 build-vmdisk-swapsize = 4000 build-vmdisk-filesystem = ext4
You just have to adjust the Memory quantity and the device to what you create for your own environment.
