Home Assistant Stuck on Preparing - installing on VMware on win10

[FriedCheese (Ryan)]

The guide is definitely meant for folks that are already semi-familiar with the VM solution they’re running.

I would just delete the VM and start over. These instructions should help better.

Installing Home Assistant on VMWare Player 17

VMWare Player is a free virtualization software that allows you to run multiple operating systems on a single host machine. This means you can create a virtual machine (VM) for Home Assistant, which is an efficient and safe way to run the software. Full Guide Here In addition to the detailed written post, I also created a video tutorial for those who prefer visual content: [Install Home Assistant On Windows In Under 4 Minutes!] Download VM Player Download VMplayer for Windows fro…

If you have USB devices that you’d like to have persistently connected (e.g. ZigBee/Z-Wave sticks) then, before starting the VM, when at the step to enable efi, jump down to this post:

Installing Home Assistant on VMWare Player 17

Here’s some extra credit setup info. Setting Up USB Autoconnect Shut down your HA VM. Navigate to your the folder where your VM lives. Open the vmware.log file in the text editor of your choosing. Search for the USB device you wish to automatically connect to the VM. You should see a line similar to this. [image] Go back to the folder and edit the VMX file for your VM. At the bottom add this line for the device(s) to auto connect. The name should be the name from the log file. If you need m…