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Home Assistant on a Hypervisor

Dedicated hardware may be better for you, but I decided to use a Hypervisor for a few reasons:

  • Container and Core installations had too many limitations
  • I already have an Intel NUC with linux running some local services for me
  • I'm just getting started with Home Assistant and it's an easier first step

I decided to use Proxmox to run the VM rather than VirtualBox (for Oracle reasons). To install it, I chose to add their APT repository to my existing debian based installation: https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-sysadmin.html#sysadmin_package_repositories

Note: If using the no-subscription version of the Proxmox repos, you must add `[trusted=yes]` between the `deb` and URL portion in `sources.list` because apparently Proxmox doesn't really want non-paying people using their repos. 


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