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35 lines
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title: Portable Haiku OS
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### Setting up a portable Haiku OS with full disk encryption and large hardware support
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## Why
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Haiku OS is a great alternative OS. However there are a few reason I can't use it on bare-metal on my main laptops:
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- hardware support is lacking
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- there is no support for full disk encryption
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- some stuff is simply unavailable and would force me to dual boot (like widewine DRM support for Netflix)
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I could live with the third one missing, this is more a problem for my partner, but the 2 former ones are difficult to overcome for me as I am use to protect my data with full disk encryption on all my computers.
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My idea is to have an Haiku OS that lives on an USB harddrive, or in this case an M2 SSD harddrive inside an usb compatible casing, that I can use to boot Haiku on any of my computers.
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## How?
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The idea is to use virtualization on a host Linux system that will offer a better hardware support, mainly network, wifi, bluetooth, power support. But I didn't want to boot a linux, log on to a desktop, then start a VM. I would just end up using the linux desktop and not Haiku. What I did was setting up a minimal Debian 12 system that will autologin on tty1, start an Haiku VM automatically in full screen mode as if I was just running it on bare metal, and shutdown whenever I shutdown Haiku.
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Other features:
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- automatic sizing of VM CPU and memory depending on what is available on the hardware
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- network/wifi linux settings accessible via a quick shortcut
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- bluetooth pairing/connection accessible via a quick shortcut
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- battery power status available from the Haiku desktop
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- a Linux Web Browser with DRM support available for streaming
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todo:
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- automatic snapshot and backup of VM with ZFS
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There are different ways to do it, so I will show you different scenarios.
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## The simplest way
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