Closed TwisterMc closed 1 year ago
It seems you are using a rather old machine configuration with IDE disk drive emulation. Newer setups as per installation guide should be using SCSI or SATA. Can you try a setup from scratch and compare your storage configuration to that of a new one?
I ran though https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/macos/ and there's no change with the old image.
The new image gives me
Did it get sorted? I was about to update my VirtualBox on my Mac.
No fix yet. I did rollback VirtualBox with no success.
Turns out most of my stuff was TP Link / Kasa so I just bought TPL Bridge and that works like a charm. I'll re-do home assistant some day.
I had the same issue. I updated Virtualbox from 6.1 to 7 and it 'broke' the VDI. Long story short - I don't know what happened.
I quickly gave up trying to fix it as I needed to get the house working again. So I downgraded to Virtualbox 6.1, reinstalled HA in a VM and used a (nightly) backup.
However, after that I started playing around again on a different (same spec) laptop. I created another HA instance and I've upgraded from VirtualBox from 6.1 to 7. Then back to 6.1 then back to 7 - all without any problems. The reason I was doing this was to try to get Bluetooth to work with HA in a VM on a Mac (no success).
In summary, I think I was just unlucky the first time and something odd happened with the VDI which corrupted it
EDIT: I find USB devices on Virtualbox on the Mac a total lottery in terms of getting them to work. On my test machine I've a spare Conbee II USB which VirtualBox 6.1 can find and use but Virtualbox 7 can't (some sharing violation). On my 'main' HA VM instance I don't use USB stick. Instead I have the original Raspberry Pi 3 running all the 'Deconz' stuff including the Conbee II stick. Ideally I'd like to integrate all the parts together on to a single old MacBook but its not easy.
Yeah I've had mixed results too. I bought the Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 dongle and set everything up with Z2M eventually but it took very specific steps in VirtualBox for the dongle to show up. Once it did though it's been pretty stable. When you were trying to get Bluetooth working was it with a USB Bluetooth adapter or Mac built in? I believe there is no way to get Mac built in to work with VM's. I was going to try an external adapter.
My main issue right now is figuring out the networking stuff through Virtualbox. Can't cast anything to Google devices and my Sonos cannot reach it's port!
I had the same issue. I updated Virtualbox from 6.1 to 7 and it 'broke' the VDI. Long story short - I don't know what happened.
I quickly gave up trying to fix it as I needed to get the house working again. So I downgraded to Virtualbox 6.1, reinstalled HA in a VM and used a (nightly) backup.
However, after that I started playing around again on a different (same spec) laptop. I created another HA instance and I've upgraded from VirtualBox from 6.1 to 7. Then back to 6.1 then back to 7 - all without any problems. The reason I was doing this was to try to get Bluetooth to work with HA in a VM on a Mac (no success).
In summary, I think I was just unlucky the first time and something odd happened with the VDI which corrupted it
EDIT: I find USB devices on Virtualbox on the Mac a total lottery in terms of getting them to work. On my test machine I've a spare Conbee II USB which VirtualBox 6.1 can find and use but Virtualbox 7 can't (some sharing violation). On my 'main' HA VM instance I don't use USB stick. Instead I have the original Raspberry Pi 3 running all the 'Deconz' stuff including the Conbee II stick. Ideally I'd like to integrate all the parts together on to a single old MacBook but its not easy.
I bought one of those new SkyConnect USBs to test also (it's en route). However ultimately the issue is USB on VirtualBox on a Mac and I don't know if its Apple or Oracle's fault. If I ever got it all working I'd be afraid to update the Mac OS or the Virtualbox.
Regarding the Bluetooth I tried internal and a cheap external one (TFUFR Bluetooth 5.0 Dongle Adapter on Amazon.co.uk) - neither worked and after 2 days of following tutorials I just gave up again. If you get it working with a different Bluetooth adapter please tell us here.
UPDATE: Finally got an external bluetooth USB working from this post.
tldr; run this in a terminal sudo nvram bluetoothHostControllerSwitchBehavior=never
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Describe the issue you are experiencing
I updated VirtualBox today and now HomeAssistant won't load. It's been working fine for months so I'm not sure what's going on. It's stuck on a screen that says "Booting Slot A" and there is nothing I can do.
What operating system image do you use?
ova (for Virtual Machines)
What version of Home Assistant Operating System is installed?
Latest
Did you upgrade the Operating System.
Yes
Steps to reproduce the issue
:shrug
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Anything in the Host logs that might be useful for us?
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