How to run Home Assistant (or any other UEFI image) on a Virtual Machine on OMV 5

tophee · 24. Juli 2020

I would like to run Home Assistant (HASS) in a virtual machine on OpenMediaVault 5. Up until OMV 4, this was easy because OMV (and the underlying Debian) supported VirtualBox and VB apparently didn't have any problems booting UEFI images. Because OMV 5 (and the underlying Debian 10) no longer support VirtualBox, OMV now uses KVM (libvirt) for virtual machines (and it supports Cockpit to manage them). Unfortunately, this entails that it is no longer trivial to boot UEFI images on OMV/Debian 10, and - you guessed it - the official Home Assistant image for KVM (QCOW2) needs UEFI and trying to import and boot it in Cockpit will fail. I was unable to find any button or command in Cockpit that allows me to set the boot mode to UEFI.

I somehow figured out how to do it and posted the answer here: https://superuser.com/a/1571327/148208

TechnoDadLife · 24. Juli 2020

HA has a docker image that is easy to set up. That is what the all the HA youtubers seem to be using now.

tophee · 24. Juli 2020

Yes, I also started with that docker image. But it doesn't include the add-ons. Not a problem for experienced HASS users but for someone getting started, I think it's better to run it either as a native install (e.g. on s a rsapberry pi) or on a vm. Otherwise you will have difficulties following many of the tutorials available which assume that version of HASS (including your own, if I'm not mistaken. I have watched many of them, and take the opportunity to thank you here!).

sabamimi · 25. Juli 2020

hum ...I read in another post that add-ons stores could be installed with the Docker Homeassistant image.

will try to find it....

TechnoDadLife · 27. Juli 2020

Zitat von sabamimi

hum ...I read in another post that add-ons stores could be installed with the Docker Homeassistant image.
will try to find it....

What did you find out? I am starting a big HA project now.

sabamimi · 28. Juli 2020

Zitat von TechnoDadLife

What did you find out? I am starting a big HA project now.

A quick search did not bring anything ....but I am pretty sure I read it....maybe it was in Homeassistant forum.... I will keep looking.

I am using Home assistant myself using RPi 4 so I remember noticing it for the case I would move HA to docker (using USB dongles was another point "against" HA in docker)

Regardless I will keep looking.

sabamimi · 28. Juli 2020

OK ....found it back....

But it's in french and dealing with HA Docker on Synology

https://projetsdiy.fr/home-ass…assio-nas-synology-ds718/

TechnoDadLife · 28. Juli 2020

Zitat von sabamimi

OK ....found it back....
But it's in french and dealing with HA Docker on Synology

https://projetsdiy.fr/home-ass…assio-nas-synology-ds718/

Thanks, I just ran it through google translate. I also looked at the official docs and it seems that doing docker compose and making sure to expose the usb devices is very easy as long as you have the correct permissions. Examples on this page: https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/installation/docker/

Further research, says that Hass.io just runs thing in docker, so all the add-ons are dockers. Running HA in a docker would mean just running the ad-ons in separate docker containers, most already have separate docker images available.

sabamimi · 29. Juli 2020

Yes correct all

Zitat von TechnoDadLife

Thanks, I just ran it through google translate. I also looked at the official docs and it seems that doing docker compose and making sure to expose the usb devices is very easy as long as you have the correct permissions. Examples on this page: https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/installation/docker/

Further research, says that Hass.io just runs thing in docker, so all the add-ons are dockers. Running HA in a docker would mean just running the ad-ons in separate docker containers, most already have separate docker images available.

Thanks for the USB hint.

Totally correct about the containers

Cheers !

tophee · 6. August 2020

Here is a table from https://community.home-assista…n-methods/207703?u=tophee which is trying to clarify things:

So if you have HA in a container and you have the add-ons, then you're running the HA-supervised. This way of running HA is apparently not supported by the HA team (whatever that means in practice):

(source: https://community.home-assista…u-18-04-4/200020?u=tophee)

TechnoDadLife · 7. August 2020

Not officially supported like using nvidia drivers with plex in docker. You can do it, they are just not going to help you figure it out, though other people have.

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