I am just setting up Home Assistant for the first time. The end-user documentation for was not very specific as to requirements.
I have a MacMini (circa 2006: Intel Core2 Duo 2Ghz; 2Gb memory; 160Gb hard drive) which I thought I could dedicate to running HomeAssistant on VirtualBox. (The MacMini isn’t running anything else, and I thought it might be repurposed as a dedicated HA platform.)
I am running Snow Leopard (10.6.8) and VirtualBox 4.3.40, which are the last supported versions for my hardware.
I followed the HomeAssistant directions for creating a VirtualBox virtual machine using the haos_ova-9.4.vdi image file, without difficulty. However, when I run the virtual machine I get a “critical error” (listed below).
I suspect that the image file is dependent on having an “up-to-date” (or more recent) macOS and VirtualBox, although the HomeAssistant documentation for compatibility is skimpy (or I couldn’t find it).
In this forum article, it was suggested that older cpu’s might have this problem, and I am probably just hardware limited: virtualbox.org • View topic - Can't start new machines
However, I was wondering if there is a repository of historically relevant older HOAS……vdi image files which I could try, which might be compatible with VirtualBox ver4?
Or maybe there is a fix for the errors I am getting in the VB log:
emR3Debug: rc=VERR_PGM_INVALID_CR3_ADDR
aRC=VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE
(I would attach the VB log but I don’t see an option to upload a file. There is no HA log, since the VM machine didn’t launch.)
Thank you.