Virtual instances of operating systems are perfect for all kinds of testing purposes that need to be done in a safe and isolated environment. Installing Haiku in a virtual machine is a solution for people who do not want to install it on their physical computers, but wish to become familiar with it.
In this guide the Haiku operating system is being run under virtual circumstances using FreeBSD and Bhyve.
Virtual instances of operating systems are perfect for all kinds of testing purposes that need to be done in a safe and isolated environment. Therefore, installing Haiku in a virtual machine is an ideal solution for people who do not want to install it on their physical computers but want to become familiar with it.
The guide was tested on an Ubuntu Linux installation, but it should work on any Linux distribution that supports Xen.
Amazon Web Services (or, in short, AWS) is one of the most prominent cloud computing platforms that’s widely used both by private individuals and businesses alike. Since booting directly from an ISO file is not possible, we will have to create an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) based on a virtual appliance.
Go to section Preparing for this tutorial Preparing the virtual disk image Preparing the environment Preparing the AMI Deploying the AMI on the AWS platform Preparing for this tutorial Disk files represent physical devices but in the form of a file.
