HomeAssistant on KVM plug-in - GUI instalation - not starting/running - why?

Hello Jatal,

thanks for your effort!!

My xml reads as follows:

<channel type='unix'>

<source mode='bind' path='/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/channel/target/domain-6-HA_1/org.qemu.guest_agent.0'/>

<target type='virtio' name='org.qemu.guest_agent.0' state='disconnected'/>

<alias name='channel0'/>

<address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0' port='1'/>

</channel>

KVM is reporting the VM as "running" - so there is something obviously going wrong here!

My system is running on an i5-12400 12th Gen with 32GB RAM. No updates pending.

I downloaded the latest kmv qcow2 for OMV - https://github.com/home-assist….2/haos_ova-13.2.qcow2.xz

2. decompressed on WIN 11 using winzip

3. copied the file to the shared KVM folder; later forced it to RWX

4. in KVM plugin added new VM. Just checked UEFI, selected the ha cow2 file as volume, bridge br0 as network - same for me

Is there a way to start /configure the qemu guest agent manually?

regards Matthias

Sorry but my knowledge of kvm is very basic so I can’t really help much more.

Sounds like you know what you are doing and it should work.

Long shot but maybe it is using windows to decompress the file. Try using the command in Linux from the cli. I set the permissions on the qcow2 files after decompressing to the same as all of my other qcow2 files. Owner root with rw only.

I would not worry about guest agent stuff unless you have the VM working properly

Am I right that HA is not accessible when the vm is running?

Yes, the VM is running, opening a VNC terminal gets me to the shell but no HA starting

Quote from ryecoaaron

The qemu-guest-agent package has to be installed on the guest as well.

dumb question: Is this referring to the Win 11 system I'm running the VNC-Client on?

If I connect to the VM using REALVNC, a terminal window "UEFI Interactive Shell c2.2" opens.

comand " $ yum install -y qemu-guest-agent" is prompted by

"yum" is not recognized as a internal or external command.

how do I install the guest in the VM?

SailorMax59 - from my testing with HA running fine in a vm, I can confirm that qemu guest agent is already installed in the HA vm by default. You are wasting your time trying to fix this as it is not your issue.

When I setup the HA VM - it just worked - so there is something else going on with your kvm setup.

Are you running the proxmox 6.8 kernel? If not it might be worth installing the kernel plugin and running the proxmox kernel to see if that helps.

If this still does not work, you might need to start with a clean install. You can use omv-regen to save your configuration and restore it to a new install (or just setup completely clean and manually configure).

I know the reinstall option is quite extreme so I understand if you are not keen to go down this route...

Interesting. I suggested the same earlier in this thread. I used xz -v -d <path/to/xz/file> to decompress the file from the cli

So definitely worth a try

Quote from ryecoaaron

This boots up and gets an IP address. That is about all I can do since I don't use HA.

cd /srv/nvme/images

sudo wget https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/releases/download/9.5/haos_ova-9.5.qcow2.xz

sudo 7z x haos_ova-9.5.qcow2.xz

sudo chown libvirt-qemu:libvirt-qemu haos_ova-9.5.qcow2

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This Tutorial doesn't work with OMB 7.

Worked fine for me in OMV7. What doesn't work?

Maybe document the steps you have taken and the error(s) you are getting?

Quote from ryecoaaron

This boots up and gets an IP address. That is about all I can do since I don't use HA.

cd /srv/nvme/images

sudo wget https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/releases/download/9.5/haos_ova-9.5.qcow2.xz

sudo 7z x haos_ova-9.5.qcow2.xz

sudo chown libvirt-qemu:libvirt-qemu haos_ova-9.5.qcow2

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I don't can choice the Storage Volume, i have another GUI.

I will search a solution in this thread: KVM OMV Web GUI | home-assistant KVM .qcow2

So I think you need to post your settings for pools in the KVM plugin so I can understand how you have setup your volume directory.

You need to copy and extract the qcow2 file to the volume folder.

Here is my volume config in pools. So I need to extract the qcow2 file to /symlinks/omv-system/volumes

Where is the OMV 7 default "pool's path"?