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

 

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.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

 

Click Create a New Virtual Machine

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

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.

 

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