Part 2 - Install Home Assistant OS On Windows Using VMware Workstation 17 Pro(Guest Operation System-VMware ESXi 7)

Install prerequisites

Download  and Install VMware Workstation Pro

Download and Extract Home Assistant OS Image(VMware Workstation (.vmdk))

Launch VMware Workstation 17 Pro

Create a New Virtual Machine without operating system

choice client operating system (VMware ESXi 7)

Edit VM Settings 

Start the Virtual Machine from haos_ova-11.1.vmdk



How To Add Bluetooth Support

 

step 1.Downlodg image

从home assitant 官网下载VMDK虚拟机文件

VMware Workstation (.vmdk)

https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/windows

HomeAssistantOS：https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/releases 

https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system/releases/download/13.2/haos_ova-13.2.vmdk.zip

 

Fetching update data from https://version.home-assistant.io/stable.json

updating image ghcr.io/home-assistant/qemux86-64-homeassistant:landingpage to ghcr.io/home-assistant/qemux86-64-homeassistant:2024.10.3

 

step 2 .unzip image

unzip it,you will get

F:\googleDownload\haos_ova-16.2.vmdk

 

step 3.Click Create a New Virtual Machine on VMWare

Select Custom

Click Next

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

wait cli ready

wait supervisor startup

 

 

test

 

http://192.168.10.134:4357/

output

Home Assistant observer
Supervisor:	Connected
Supported:	Supported
Healthy:	Healthy

 

first run logs

journalctl -f -u hassos-supervisor.service

docker logs hassio_supervisor

docker logs homeassistant

2025-01-10 07:47:47.867 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.supervisor] Fetching AppArmor profile https://version.home-assistant.io/apparmor_stable.txt
2025-01-10 07:47:48.122 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.host.apparmor] Adding/updating AppArmor profile: hassio-supervisor
2025-01-10 07:47:48.178 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.supervisor] Update Supervisor to version 2024.12.3
2025-01-10 07:47:48.179 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.docker.interface] Downloading docker image ghcr.io/home-assistant/amd64-hassio-supervisor with tag 2024.12.3.

docker logs hassio_supervisor

 

 

docker logs homeassistant

 

detail:https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/operating-system/debugging

Note

The Supervisor downloads the latest version of Home Assistant Core on first boot. This makes sure that users start with the latest version of Home Assistant Core after starting the HAOS the first time.

 

 

useful links

Install Home Assistant OS On Windows Using VMware Workstation 17 Pro(VMware ESXi 7)

https://blog.csdn.net/fq157856469/article/details/140278194

 

 

https://www.matterxiaomi.com//boards/topic/38185/hassos-installing-home-assistant-os-on-vmware-workstation-player-17-on-windows-10-vmdk-imagevmware-e