Home Assistant LXC = extra work?

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Running Proxmox on my server, with HAOS as a VM and Jellyfin as a LXC.
I see my HAOS VM is eating up all the 8 GB of RAM i’ve allocated to it, probably because of Frigate. I just spend the last 4 days trying to passthrough my iGPU to Jellyfin (as a VM) and only succeeding because i deleted the VM and started over with a LXC and Jellyfin running in Docker. I also wish to passthrough the iGPU to HAOS, but

  • I don’t know if it’s even possible to passthrough an iGPU to multiple VM’s and/or containers
  • Even if it is possible to passthrough the iGPU, i just spend 4 days and a plethora of guides, all with different approaches, trying to make sense of it all. With this experience, i’m pretty sure no one guide can make this work
  • since a lot of the passthrough work is done on the host, i’m a bit afraid of breaking the already working passthrough to the Jellyfin LXC

So i though about spinning up a HA LXC from TTECK but saw that you cannot do it with HAOS… I’ve never run HA as anything other than HAOS and i love having it all (Add-ons, backup, restore, managed OS) collected in one machine. I can’t imagine how much of a hassle it would be to run HA Core instead, with self-management of add-ons, making everything communicate properly, updating, backups and probably other problems/limitations that i haven’t thought of yet. And yes, i’ve seen the link to the installation comparisons, but that doesn’t answer my question.

If anyone has been in a situation like this or researched it, i hope you will share your experiences

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I run HASS in a VM via pip and its a headache to update/fix.

Don’t get me wrong the others on here are a great help, but still if I didn’t need a few edge cases (private DNS, ssh it to other machines as automactions and a few other things I can’t remember right now) I wouldn’t be running it like that.

That said have a read of the pip install method and give it a spin, you’ve got nothing to lose testing it out.

I’m “passing through” my GPU to jellyfin and a few others. As LXC is less like a virtual machine and more like a container for services, the host is in charge of the GPU and allows programs in the LXC to use it, so can share resources.

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It is not more like that. It is exactly that. :wink:

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