HAOS KVM Install - legacy Bios - without EFI

henrya · July 20, 2023, 12:43pm

Hello User,

how can i install HOAS with KVM Legacy Bios?

Can i convert the haos_generic-x86-64-10.3.img.xz to a haos_generic-x86-64-10.3.qcow2 system?

Any idea?

Thank’s

henrya

wmaker · July 20, 2023, 5:05pm

If you are wanting to install HA on KVM, take a look at:

and in particular the instructions for KVM.
It already provides you with a qcow2 image, and it will use a UEFI non-secure boot file to boot HAOS.
Maybe I’m missing something, but I don’t think you need to worry about a non-UEFI boot process for this.

henrya · July 20, 2023, 5:20pm

The haos_ova-10.3.qcow2 doesn’t start without UEFI.

wmaker · July 20, 2023, 5:53pm

Right. Is there a reason you don’t want to use UEFI?

henrya · July 20, 2023, 6:37pm

My system don’t have UEFI support.

wmaker · July 20, 2023, 6:40pm

By “system” do you mean your physical machine?

henrya · July 20, 2023, 6:41pm

My physical machine

wmaker · July 20, 2023, 6:48pm

Right, and now you are trying to boot a virtual machine (KVM), so I would think your KVM can boot using UEFI independent of how your physical machine boots.

henrya · July 21, 2023, 4:56am

The haos_ova-10.3.qcow2 needs a UEFI Bios.

I search a KVM solution for my only legacy Bios system.

henrya · July 30, 2023, 5:21am

We didn’t can use HAOS KVM Install with legacy Bios?

Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivBPS5-zi04

Input https://uk.sauber-lab.com/2021/11/23/installing-home-assistant-supervised-directly-on-the-raspberry-pi/