Armbian with Virtualbox and Home Assistant

[greg396]

Dear Armbian-Enthusiasts!

 

I would like to install Armbian with Virtualbox, so that I can run Home Assistant (HA) in a VM environment (Intel chip .vdi) - yes, no container.

 

Would chose this image  "Armbian 25.11.1 Minimal / IOT 6.1 kernel" (rolling release)

 

Installing Virtualbox with:

sudo apt install virtualbox

 

Is this possible?

 

Best wishes, Greg

 

 

Links:

https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/linux/

https://wiki.debian.org/VirtualBox

https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-5-plus/

 

[eselarm]

No; an Intel (virtual machine) image does not run natively on ARM (OPi5+). You need an ARM (virtual machine) image, but those are not available (at least not click-to-download). If you look in raw downlaod folders and/or github, maybe there are nowadays. Or ask on the forum there. You need a general Aarch64 UEFI HAOS image, qcow2 or raw/flat/img format and that will be able to run at full speed on a hypervisor. Not sure about VirtualBox, but for sure the Linux built-in QEMU/libvirtd/KVM. Main user-inteface program is installed via sudo apt install virt-manager.