i'm running HASS under Synology VMM for a few years now and I've been alerted to the fact that I don't have the guest agent installed in my home assistant and therefore my virtual machine can never shut down nicely or do snapshots nicely
but when I search in the apps I do not find it
what am I supposed to do to get this working
It's not an app. It's included in the VM images. Maybe you uses the generic image? What's ha os info say?
ova is the right one. Use the VM's "monitor"/serial terminal, log in as root if needed and enter login. Then check systemctl status qemu-guest. You'll most likely see that it's there and your problem is something else.
Thanks
indeed you are right I can see there is an agent there.
in that case why am I getting a lot of CRASH snapshots instead of file consistent snapshots?
is there anything I need to do to make this work better?
Sorry, I'm not familiar with synology's virtualization but maybe you can tell me/us more about those crash snapshots.
That looks like a pretty old version, over a year behind current which is 18.1.
Are you stuck there because of using Supervised install (As opposed to HAOS)?
If so that is possibly complicating things.
oh no I have found some skipped update 15.1
I will try updating and it's offered me to update 15.2
and I'll see you all in a few days?
is it a bug that if I skipped one version way back in 15.1, I thought that meant I don't want to update to 15.2 but you should remind me again when 15.3 Gets released.
I didn't mean skip that component forever? although it has been a really peaceful couple of years
unfortunately it seems to still just do the crash consistent after updating everything that can be updated
it did manage one file system consist the day after We did all these updates
what can be wrong with this setup?
the Synology nas did system update overnight, And when I got up the virtual machine was suspended. There was something wrong with the image and it could not be resumed so I had to discard it.
the problem was not that I had to discard it but that the Home Assistant was down the whole time and could not manage my devices for example the air conditioning with the solar
No, selecting the ISO file is not required. More importantly, a reboot of HA should not take an hour. It should be less than a minute or so.
That is just the original image you downloaded from Alternative - Home Assistant
haos_ova-18.1.ova is the latest image, but as I showed in the previous post, the image is only for the initial install. After that, the actual VM will use the latest HA version you update to.
Think of it as installing Windows 10 from a disk, but upgrading to Windows 11. The install disk is still Windows 10.
