That’s a thought. I’ll dig into that.
Edit: Ok, I had no idea you can run all that in Home Assist. How did I miss that repo??
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All the more reason to look at Proxmox and Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts
Install Home Assistant OS as a VM
Install Plex Media Server as an LXC
You could even install Windows 10 in a VM and passthrough the graphics card, keyboard and mouse. This will allow you to use Windows 10 normally - although some games might not work due to anti-cheat getting triggered for using a VM.
There is no “wrong” way to do this. Virtual Box, direct bare-metal installation, Docker, Proxmox, and other methods all have their enthusiastic (and not wrong) supporters!
For me, I followed the Proxmox community guide listed above and found it a solid approach. Since you’re already running a VM, you already have many of the concepts and so it shouldn’t be a difficult transition. Proxmox is basically an open source, Linux-based replacement for Windows and Virtual Box in your setup. It provides all the benefits of a VM - easy to run other applications on the same hardware, easy to spin up test environments, easy to make backups of your complete environment, etc. - with a very low (2-3%) overhead.
Good luck with whatever choice you make! And from an HA perspective, you can always change options down the road - just make a backup from one environment and restore into the new environment!
Yes, I am very grateful that it’s so easy migrate Hassio.
+1 for Proxmox over VirtualBox. The learning curve is not bad, and the helper scripts speed up setup. The fact it has a web-native UI unlike VirtualBox is a huge advantage. And getting VMs to autostart is a checkbox rather than the pain it is on VirtualBox (or was as at a few years ago when I was using it).
Auto start is very simple for me. I don’t use a Virtualbox functionality for that, I simply have Linux run the command 60s after startup.