Install Void Linux onto a USB Stick

installing a persistent Void Linux onto a USB device. Also I talked about how to run a qemu/KVM virtual machine.

The 6 steps that we discussed here:

. Download the void live image

. Checking support for KVM

. Install qemu (and OVMF)

. Boot to the live image and install void linux, using the void-installer Use another usb ❌ Perform a rootfs/tarball install from a running linux system ❓ Use a virtual machine ✅

. Boot to the usb stick, reconfigure your initramfs through dracut and reinstall and reconfigure the bootloader

. Post installation`

And the commands that i used In this video:

$ LC_ALL=C lscpu | grep Virtualization # Checking hardware support for KVM

$ lsmod | grep kvm # To ensure that the kernel modules are automatically loaded\

$ lsusb # Find the vendor ID and product ID of your USB flash (thumb) drive

$ qemu-system-x86_64 --enable-kvm -cpu host -M q35 -smp cores=2,threads=2 -m 4G -cdrom PATH/TO/void-live-?.iso -boot order=d -usb -device usb-host,vendorid=0x????,productid=0x???? -bios /usr/share/ovmf/x64/OVMF_CODE.fd # Run qemu

Arch wiki page for KVM

Void wiki page

Post installation