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Setting up a portable Haiku OS with full disk encryption and large hardware support
Why
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:
- hardware support is lacking
- there is no support for full disk encryption
- some stuff is simply unavailable and would force me to dual boot (like widewine DRM support for Netflix)
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.
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.
How?
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.
Other features:
- automatic sizing of VM CPU and memory depending on what is available on the hardware
- network/wifi linux settings accessible via a quick shortcut
- bluetooth pairing/connection accessible via a quick shortcut
- battery power status available from the Haiku desktop
- a Linux Web Browser with DRM support available for streaming
todo:
- automatic snapshot and backup of VM with ZFS
There are different ways to do it, so I will show you different scenarios.