Any success installing HassOS on parallels for M1 Mac?

Installation Home Assistant OS
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I have a working setup using UTM by following this guide

However recently HA has been dropping off the network (bridged via USB Ethernet into MacBook Air) until I fully close UTM and restart the VM. (Just restarting VM doesn’t work)

I have also been able to install supervised HA via a Debian VM in parallels but that means maintaining the Os separately and it can flag as unsupported.

If I try and use the HassOS AARCH64 image with parallels , it can’t recognise the OS and won’t boot.

Hoping someone might have success getting HassOS into parallels?

Cheers

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ah, ive sussed it!

On the Mac download the vmdk version then open terminal and navigate to where the downloaded image is and run this

prl_convert haos_generic-aarch64-9.5.vmdk --dst=haos.hdd --allow-no-os --stand-alone-disk

Then in parallels create a new VM> linux other and select the new .hdd file.

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I’m trying it now (vmdk conversion). Fingers crossed that it works as good as or better then my current x8x-x64 install.

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Everything works fine… BT included…

Thanks for the idea on the prl_convert …

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Yes Bluetooth also works great! It couldn’t see any devices using the MacBooks Bluetooth in UTM so I had to use a dongle there.
Parallels works fine with the built-in BT!

It also hasn’t lost network at all since switching from UTM>parallels.

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I was able to use prl and get that converted. Am I supposed to just crest a blank VM and then attach that as the head before booting? I did that and I get to a command line in the VM. But the interface just stops at cannot reach home assistant and keeps retrying.

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I am interested to see how this done myself - Ive tried this and i cannot get it to boot. What version of parallels?

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Was not successful too.

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I used Parallels V20 on my Mac mini M4. Creating a new Parallels machine using “Download Ubuntu Linux”.
After it started I shut down the Ubuntu and copied the haos.hdd from
prl_convert haos_generic-aarch64-16.0.vmdk --dst=haos.hdd --allow-no-os --stand-alone-disk
to my user folder Parallels/Home Assistant.pvm

In the Parallels settings “Hardware/Hard Disk” I selected the new file haos.hdd as source.
I then rebooted the VM and a few seconds later HA showed up.

Before this, you should change the network settings in the VM on Bridged/Standard Adapter. Only then I could open Safari with the IP shown in the VM console.
Booting etc. is lightning fast on an M4 Mac mini.

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Afaict, Parallels Tools can’t be installed on HAOS and so the UI can’t be used to shut down the machine gracefully, for example. Is that correct?