Ok after performing some testing. I can sadly say Calamares isn't ready for
prime time. LVM support is severely lacking and broken. I can create an LVM
PV and see LVM PVs, but I cannot control the actual partitioning inside the
LVM group, you also cannot create an LVM group. This is not a KPMcore
limitation. As kde partition manager can create LVM groups, and create
partitions inside the LVM group. KPM seems to handle this slightly
different though. First LVM PVs must be created then an LVM group made.
Only then after its written to disk can you partition the LVM Group as it
will finally appear under the devices list.

KPMcore doesn't recognize virtio devices :( . Working out of a VM? Drive
better be emulated as SATA or no installs are gonna happen.

LUKs is broke with current Sabayon setup. LUKs appears to 'work' as in
creating and installing on encrypted drives, but the system will always
complain that the luks encrypted device is not a valid root device and
fails to boot. The default install with encryption seems to want to decrypt
at GRUB allowing for even /boot encryption (which seems like a good idea to
me). This is something we will need to consider before switching in the
future.

These currently are my only complaints as to what doesn't work.  Since
KPMcore has most of these capabilities (except virtio), its basically
waiting on calamares to add the capabilities within the software.

-Darksurf


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