Hass IO in a Virtual Machine

baz_12312 · June 26, 2019, 8:30am

Have you run out of space? If so, resize the vmdk, download gparted iso and boot from that. Resize the partition, apply changes, remove the boot cd and reboot…

nb, if gparted is stuck in a boot loop, change the VM to “bios” from “efi”

obviously, backup everything first.

eduardo.donjuan · July 8, 2019, 4:03pm

Hi guys, im a complete newbie on HassIO, I managed to install it on a linux VM with VMware but the web UI won’t load until i hit enter on the VM and type “root” as username, is there anyway to automate this process? Thanks so much in advance for your help

bobzer · July 8, 2019, 4:18pm

i guess you installed hassbian and you don’t have a script to start home assistant ?

eduardo.donjuan · July 8, 2019, 4:30pm

Hi Bobzer, no, I followed this steps https://www.ivobeerens.nl/2019/01/15/install-home-assistant-hass-io-in-vmware-workstation/

bobzer · July 8, 2019, 4:43pm

I don’t know,
this is strange, maybe look at the log to check if there is error.
I’m not experience in that sorry

dax333 · July 11, 2019, 4:33am

I have plenty of space. When I run the Web Gui update, it pulls the latest docker image. Thinks for about 15 minutes and then comes back up running 0.92.2
I’m running Hass.io on Debian linux inside ESXi 6.5.
None of the hassio cli commands I’ve found are available to me.

I’ve never had a problem upgrading in the past on this system.

sysop@dockmaster : ~/ha $ sudo hassio

sudo: hassio: command not found

During the long wait I run the show images command.

sysop@dockmaster:~/ha$ docker images |grep homeassistant/qemux86-64-homeassistant
homeassistant/qemux86-64-homeassistant 0.95.4 3ec05d57fa7d 11 days ago 1.01GB
homeassistant/qemux86-64-homeassistant latest 3ec05d57fa7d 11 days ago 1.01GB
sysop@dockmaster:~/ha$ docker images |grep homeassistant/qemux86-64-homeassistant
homeassistant/qemux86-64-homeassistant 0.95.4 3ec05d57fa7d 11 days ago 1.01GB
homeassistant/qemux86-64-homeassistant latest 3ec05d57fa7d 11 days ago 1.01GB
sysop@dockmaster:~/ha$ docker images |grep homeassistant/qemux86-64-homeassistant
homeassistant/qemux86-64-homeassistant 0.92.2 0069222f84fb 2 months ago 1.15GB
homeassistant/qemux86-64-homeassistant latest 0069222f84fb 2 months ago 1.15GB

flamingm0e · July 11, 2019, 5:28am

You have to be INSIDE the hassio container or the SSH add-on…

dax333 · July 11, 2019, 2:30pm

I tried using

docker exec -it hassio_supervisor /bin/bash

but had the same luck. I’ll look around in there again today.

dax333 · July 11, 2019, 4:34pm

What is the path to the hassio binary? Can someone do a whereis hassio for me? I’m trying to find it in the supervisor container.

nickrout · July 11, 2019, 7:44pm

There is no hassio binary. The home-assistant binary is hass and is inside the home-assistant container, not the supervisor component.

dax333 · July 11, 2019, 7:48pm

so this command should be run from inside the Home-assistant docker container?

as well as these?:

DavidFW1960 · July 11, 2019, 9:56pm

Normally I run those from the ssh addon. The community ssh and web terminal.

dax333 · July 11, 2019, 10:19pm

Does it conflict with the ssh daemon of my Debian host? I didn’t see mention of alternate port options in the ssh add-on docs.

On a side note I fixed my upgrading problem. I blew out my config and the upgrade took without auto rolling back. I believe their were changes that now brought errors instead of warnings and hass.io was nice enough to roll back. After putting my old config back in post upgrade it would just hang. Now I’m cleaning it up.

DavidFW1960 · July 11, 2019, 11:52pm

Yes it will conflict. I use port 622 instead of 22 in the addon. The Community SSH & Web Terminal you can do this but not in the core addon. The docs do actually say with a generic linux install you can’t use the core addon.

imola.zhp · July 12, 2019, 6:18pm

Any luck?

I’m having the same issue. I’m pretty far into my setup (this is 2.0 for me) but I feel like I need to sort this first before continuing further.

I followed a DrZzz’s video for installation and also must type in “root” before Hassio will finish loading. I want to automate the entire process so the machine will auto load in the event of a power outage.

EDIT: I think my problem was that I was not patient enough for HA to load. It would seem to get stuck, I would type in “root” and it would continue and I could login.
On one of the youtube videos I watched wile trying to solve a different problem, the installer upped the number of cores allocated to the VM. I went ahead and upped mine as well, at least until I’m done setting the machine up and I no longer need to type in “root” to access HA.

craigcurtin · August 12, 2019, 11:55pm

I think you left out an argument on the Expand line on the disk - it should read

vmkfstools -X 32G -d eagerzeroedthick home_assistant.vmdk

i.e. you dropped out the -d which is mandatory if you want to define the disk type to be non default

Craig

craigcurtin · August 13, 2019, 12:38am

For anyone else revisiting this topic - here are the steps i have just followed in VMWare ESXI 5.5.

Download the HassIO 2.2. image as linked from the install page
Put it on a datastore that is accessible from your VM host
UNzip it using 7Zip
Create a new Linux (Other) 64-bit 2.6 Kernel VM
Give it two processors, 2GB RAM
Choose the option (when asked) to use an existing disk
Point it to the VMDK you unzipped
Change the BIOS to EFI - in Options - Advanced Options
Boot the VM and launch the Console to watch what is happening
let it finish its first boot
then load the web page in a browser http:\hassio:8123 (this will work as long as your DHCP is setup correctly)
Once you have confirmed you can access the web page then shutdown Hass via the web page
Access your VMware host ESXI commandline with SSH
Change directory to the datastore where the VM resides
do a directory listing for *.vmdk - the name of your disk should be something like hass_os_ova-xxxx.vmdk
use the command vmkfstools -X 32G -d eagerzeroedthick [NAME OF YOUR DISK].vmdk
once this has finished you should be able to start the VM up and you will be good to go with a 32GB disk

Craig

graeme871 · August 14, 2019, 4:58pm

Thank you very much for the tip of adding /24. I had followed the video and all had worked for several weeks before stopping. Tried all sorts to get it back for several weeks then I decided to start all over again and had the same issue. Then I found this thread and got it working again. So not only have I got it back working, I have learned so much while trying.