From here on out, whenever haos_ova-7.2.vdi is mentioned in a command, replace it with the correct filename (version) of the one you downloaded. Get the latest link from the installation guide.

The current latest version at the time of writing is 7.2. The minimum amount of vCPUs as described in the installation guide VBoxManage modifyvm homeassistant -cpus 2Ģ.5 - Download the latest vdi image and extract it This command sets the RAM to 6GB (modify to your needs), video memory to 16MB (also modify to your needs) VBoxManage modifyvm homeassistant -memory 6144 -vram 16 2.1 - Create a new VM VBoxManage createvm -name homeassistant -registerĢ.2 - Select OS type “Other Linux (64-bit)” VBoxManage modifyvm homeassistant -ostype Linux_64 These steps basically follow the steps outlined in the installation guide. Next, check that it can use KVM acceleration kvm-okġ.1 - Install VirtualBox sudo apt-get -y install virtualboxĢ - Create and configure the VirtualBox VM egrep -c '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfoĪs long as it doesn’t return 0, then you’re good. I’ll assume you have your OS installed, and have sudo rights.įirst, check that your CPU can run VMs. The reason I made this guide is because I could have used one If there is something wrong, or something that could be done smarter, please let me know! 1 - Preparation Please report both if you have success on other systems, and if not. NOTE: This is for Ubuntu Server LTS 20.04, but I suspect it will work for many Debian-based systems. Since the install page only describes how to use VirtualBox via a GUI, and I am using VirtualBox in a server setting, I thought I’d share a quick guide to how to do this from CLI only. Installing VirtualBox and deploying Home Assistant OS Special thanks to for their topic, so I could use it as a template for this one.

I was installing Home Assistant OS on an Ubuntu Server (20.04) and documented my steps along the way. This is basically the same guide as Install Home Assistant OS with KVM on Ubuntu headless (CLI only), but for VirtualBox

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