Exactly how I see it and did it. Thanks for mentioning this.
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vzq@lemmy.world 3 days ago
There is no compelling reason to run home assistant in a vm instead of in a container.
I’d get rid of the virtualization layer in your specific case and save yourself a lot of hassle, especially on smaller systems.
haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 3 days ago
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Doesn’t that require manual setup of the addons if you don’t run HA OS?
litron3000@feddit.org 3 days ago
that was my reasoning as well: with HA OS it is as little trouble for me to maintain - at least that was my line of thinking
vzq@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yeah, just set them up in another container.
Addons are just software.
I only run mosquitto right now, but it’s not exactly hard or complicated or time consuming to set up.
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Oh I know it’s just more of a pain, there’s very little overhead from a VM running Linux so it’s well worth doing that IMO.
vzq@lemmy.world 3 days ago
There is little performance overhead from running a VM. However there’s a substantial administrative overhead for keeping a virtualization system running just for home assistant.
If this a hobby to you, sure, you do you. Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted. But it’s way less effort to just run everything you need in a container stack - especially if are you already running containers for other things.