Hi Andrew!

Thanks for replying.

However, my attempts got bogged down at:

virt-install playing poorly with grsecurity-hardened
https://forums.grsecurity.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4609

(maybe some of grsecurity users among you Devuan can tell why such poor
play of virt=install with a (heavily) grsecurity-hardened kernel?... The
grsecurity-hardened Devuan is what I plan to try and achieve also with
DEvuan once I finally install it... But read my apologies at the end of
this email...)

Notice there a link to Gentoo Bugzilla to see why I was trying to see if
virt-install could do for me:
=sys-kernel/hardened-sources-4.7.6: Kernel panic when starting KVM
guests
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=597554

It's likely a use-after-free condition, according to PaX Team:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=597554#c16

More of my reply below.

On 161110-11:05+1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> Okay, doing a reply all to make sure that Miroslav gets this okay....
>
> On 10/11/16 00:31, Miroslav Rovis wrote:
> > ...
> > I said would [be looking into this tutorial, if...].
> > If this:
> >> Once the install was done, I dumped the xml, edited it, undefined the
> >> guest and then re-created it from the adjusted xml. The changes
> >> required (to the xml exported file) were to stop it booting the
> >> installer and to boot from the disk image instead.
> > means what you install with virt-install on an LVM volume on your real
> > hard drive can then be booted normally, regularly, leaving the Virtual
> > Machine behind?
>
> What you have is a Guest machine contained in an LVM volume; the Host
> machine boots normally.
>
> If you wanted to boot the guest machine, then you may need to do more
> works for conversion. My host machine is with dropbear within initrd
> boot and full disk encryption. It boots fine with or with the LVM
> created instance. My purpose was to create a KVM host and then create
> guests (like this one) as needed.
>
> Thanks
> AndrewM

Thank you!

While I think the conversion to turn a Devuan guest is very likely much
more complex than a regular install, none of it can I still attempt to
do yet...

This has cost me a lot of time, and I got nowhere.

I did have a much nicer try with Devuan-based Refracta which I was so
glad about:

Devuan image in Qemu
http://www.croatiafidelis.hr/foss/cap/cap-161015-qemu-devuan/#No5

Thanks again, and ;-) sorry I work so slow...!

--
Miroslav Rovis
Zagreb, Croatia
http://www.CroatiaFidelis.hr