A very long story short, I had a catastrophic failure with my server about 8 months ago, main drive failed, all backups of drive failed, all backups of homeassistant fail to restore (regardless of installing the exact version of homeassistant I was on).
Tried the restore process about 20 times on different pcs, on my main gaming desktop that has an i9 13900K, so I know it’s not CPU bound or anything like that.
Anyway I’m so bored of trying to get the restore to work I’ve decided I’m just going to start again, but I can’t even do that, installing a brand new copy returns this error every time, specs of the server;
i7-5960X
128GB RAM
512GB C drive SSD
I’m at a complete loss, I’m an IT manager by day so I’m not what you can consider a moron but I’m just lost as to what I’m doing wrong here.
I’ve tried uninstalling VirtualBox, it makes no change but does seem to work on my gaming PC if I install fresh, but have no idea how a fresh install can fail on one specific PC? Unless it could be driver related but how I’d figure that out I don’t know.
Can’t really help you with your specific problem but for me, Virtualbox works just fine. So it’s not that per se. I’m running it from Linux Mint, but I have successfully started an instance from VB on Windows too.
I assume you followed the exact instructions, there’s a few non-standard options that have to be checked IIRC.
As far as i know, hyperV doesn’t support usb pass through
Yes, it is.
When i started with HA, i used HyperV.
With the Zigbee i used then it was possible to configure it for ser2lan,.
When it died, i found out my new zigbee usb did not support ser2lan, so i needed to switch to another VM.
For my work i used VMware already with great satisfaction, but VB being freeware and all I figured lets give VB a try with HA.
But i found it was highly unstable (I had the same errors and I never found out what exactly the issue was).
So i moved to VMware and never looked back.
It is a bit harder to configure, but worth it
PS, Vmware’s player is freeware, but workstation is not. So i used my workstation on my work pc to set it up and configure it, and then moved it to player…that made it a lot easier
For sure it wasn’t supported when i started with HA, not so sure now, but no intentions to move back, also because in the meanwhile i dropped W10, my host now runs Debian12.
(Originally i intended to run debian supervised, but found out it has too many restrictions )
I started with VMware, but once tried VB and Hyper-V each, NO reasons to try ever again , if we just “ignore” VB, and look at Hyper-V vs VMware,
Windows will increase in usage much more, with H-V, and one never knows with Windows, if it’s not a slimmed dedicated “server”, then many things can happened with Microsoft Updates, last updates (for W10) was killing 2 machines here, took hours and i had to reboot 3 times , and who knows what changes they do that could affect H-V , VMware is just so much more reliable, and one can shut it down and copy/backup-the whole VM-folder, and fire it up on any other machine
