Installing HAOS (Home Assistant OS) in a VM

Apps and Virtualization
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Troubleshooting and Additional Information

:warning: Permission denied

The following errors (or similar) when trying to download, extract, or install HAOS using the TrueNAS shell are typically caused by insufficient user permissions.

haos_ova-9.5.qcow2.xz: Permission denied
Cannot write to ‘haos_ova-9.5.qcow2.xz’ (Permission denied).
unxz: haos_ova-9.5.qcow2: Permission denied
qemu-img: /dev/zvol/tank/vm/haos: error while converting raw: Protocol driver 'host_device' does not support image creation, and opening the image failed: Could not open '/dev/zvol/tank/vm/haos': Permission denied

You may need to run the commands as root or use sudo

sudo wget https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/releases/download/9.5/haos_ova-9.5.qcow2.xz
sudo unxz haos_ova-9.5.qcow2.xz
sudo qemu-img convert -O raw haos_ova-9.5.qcow2 /dev/zvol/tank/vm/haos

:warning: Cannot grow device files

This can happen when the ZVOL is not sized correctly.

qemu-img: /dev/zvol/tank/vm/haos: error while converting raw: Cannot grow device files

Confirm the size of your ZVOL is at least 32 GiB

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:warning: VM is booting to the UEFI Interactive shell

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This happens if we use the incorrect path when writing the HAOS image to our zvol. Notice in the following command that the path starts with /dev/zvol

qemu-img convert -O raw haos_ova-11.5.qcow2 /dev/zvol/tank/vm/haos

If you’re still having trouble, please reply with the exact command you used for this step.

:information_source: Using the ConBee II Zigbee Controller

Unfortunately, the Conbee II is known to not work with USB Passthrough.

You still have a few options, though:

  1. Use PCIe passthrough to connect the USB controller to the VM.
  2. Use this script to start your VM. (this gets old fast)
  3. The final option is to get another Zigbee controller
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