Hass.io manual installation in virtual environment on Raspberry Pi

Installation
1

I followed the manual (Virtual Environment) installation instructions on this page: https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/installation/raspberry-pi/

The installation is working fine with a android TV and a Xiaomi Air Purifier. However I keep reading forum posts that the manual installation method is not installing hassio. Its just Home Assistant.

So I have two questions:

  1. what exactly is the difference between Home Assistant and hassio? I mean what features do I get with hassio that Home Assistant doesn’t have?
  2. Is there a installation instruction for hassio in the virtual environment available?

I don’t want to use the image because I also have Pi-hole running on the same Raspberry Pi OS Lite with LXQt desktop environment.

2

The second one has not existed for some months now. It is just called Home Assistant OS.

The different install methods are summarised here: Home Assistant Installation Methods

No. You can only install Home Assistant Core in the python virtual environment. e.g. Installing Home Assistant Core on CentOS/RHEL

If on the other hand you really mean a virtual machine, see the same category for options:

e.g. Installing Home Assistant OS using Proxmox 8