Successfully running Home Assistant Supervised on Mac Mini M1 in VMWare fusion player

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Hi, I have been running Home Assistant Supervised in UTM on my Mac mini M1 but struggled with auto restarting after power downs/failures and USB device connections/reconnections. I live rurally and often have power outages/failures.

I have now switched to VMWare Fusion 13.6.1 and am running stably using haos_generic-aarch64-13.2.vmdk which I setup as an “Other linux 5.X kernel 64-bit ARM”. I increased HD size to 32Gb, installed my home assistant instance from a backup. I then set the VM to autostart and power off when closed, added VMWare to my login items, assigned USB devices to be always assigned to the VM, and bingo, it all works. Yay.

I hope this helps others

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Have you tried using frigate with M1?

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Not yet, I’m just looking into setting it up!

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I was close to giving up. I’m on a M2 mini. I tried VirtualBox, UTM, and Docker. After reading your thread, I talked myself into trying one more time, and I got working! VMWare Fusion - haos_generic-aarch64-14.0.vmdk. I also tested it with Other linux 6.X kernel 64-bit ARM and it works.

Thanks!

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Glad to hear it, my journey was similar, I almost bought an intel machine but luckily got VMWare working just before I did. I also got Frigate working and it works quite well with the M1 CPU detector.

Good luck

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I`ve got a Mac Mini M4 with MacOS 15.2. I can’t access the website. How do you config your networkcard?
Homeassistant 14.0 / Generic Kernel 6

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Bridged network interface

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Which version of MacOS?

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Sonoma 14.7.1

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Thank you for your help. Found the problem. After update to OS 15.2 webbroser chrome can’t access local network. With Safari and firefox is worked.