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(Last edited by CandyAngel on 29 Aug 2015.)

Warning: These instructions are incomplete. The goal setup is not achievable by following them.

Goal setup:

Alpine Linux as KVM host on LVM on RAID1 on GPT disks.
Windows as KVM guest, with VGA passthrough (gaming).
Linux as KVM guest.

Instructions

Boot Alpine
Log in as root

Note: When prompted for what disk to use, select 'none'.

setup-alpine

Variables

export _DRIVE1=/dev/sdb export _DRIVE2=/dev/sde

Partitioning

apk add gptfdisk gdisk $_DRIVE1

o y n 1 +128M n 2 +930G x a 1 2 w y

sgdisk $_DRIVE1 -R $_DRIVE2 sgdisk -G $_DRIVE2

RAID1

modprobe raid1 echo raid1 >> /etc/modules apk add mdadm mdadm --create --level=1 --raid-devices=2 --metadata=1.0 /dev/md1 ${_DRIVE1}1 ${_DRIVE2}1 mdadm --create --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/md2 ${_DRIVE1}2 ${_DRIVE2}2

y

mdadm --detail --scan > /etc/mdadm.conf rc-update add mdadm-raid boot

LVM

apk add lvm2 e2fsprogs syslinux pvcreate /dev/md2 vgcreate vg0 /dev/md2 lvcreate -n alpine-host -L 8G vg0 vgchange -ay rc-update add lvm

Filesystems

mkfs.ext3 /dev/md1 mkfs.ext3 /dev/vg0/alpine-host mount -t ext3 /dev/vg0/alpine-host /mnt mkdir /mnt/boot mount -t ext3 /dev/md1 /mnt/boot

Install Alpine

setup-disk -m sys /mnt

Install MBR

dd bs=440 conv=notrunc count=1 if=/usr/share/syslinux/gptmbr.bin of=${_DRIVE1} dd bs=440 conv=notrunc count=1 if=/usr/share/syslinux/gptmbr.bin of=${_DRIVE2}

Reboot

reboot