NixOS encrypted VM installation
In this post I’ll describe how to set up a sparse VM image with full disk encryption and NixOS on ZFS, which can be uploaded to a VPS provider and then unlocked on boot using ssh. First we need to create a virtual machine image file. Initially I tried using qemu-img, but somehow the image file was missing some information and the VM would not recognize a disk. Instead I went with the easy way and used virt-manager to create a new VM with the correct image size....