How to Install Home Assistant on VirtualBox | Home Assistant VirtualBox

In this video, I will walk you through the step of installing Home Assistant on VirtualBox in a Windows 10 PC. This home assistant setup, is usually don't on a RaspberryPi but for someone looking to test home assistant windows 10 install might serve them better. Home Assistant virtual machine setup allows you to spin up new session and really try out different setups without having to flash a SD card. The home assistant installation is fairly quick, so let me know if you have any questions below.

[mickkelly]

I struggled for a long time and then found this vid. Simple, calm and striuctured. Now HA is up and running. Thanks for a great vid.

[walmarek]

Struggled with Virtualbox on Toshiba laptop. Got halfway but could not get HA installed until this well structured guide got me all the way. Thanks, your guidance is much appreciated.

[landonmosley]

Still helpful 2 years later. Thank you! Liked and subbed

[sambold]

So very happy with the video so clear detailed and stepwise. Got it done on the first time only. Thanks a lot.

[heartofgold]

Awesome guide, worked like a charm on my first try! Thank You!

[stevejohns]

Thank you for a very clear tutorial. I got Home Assistant up and running with your help without much trouble.

[WdnUlikno]

VERY useful! I love clear straight to the point videos! Thanks! Though I do feel like an idiot after sitting here for nearly an hour wondering why nothing would happen after entering my Home Assistant IP address in the web browser, then I forgot I needed to add that IP address to my trusted zone to get around the firewall. SMH.

[paulwisher]

Excellent video, very straightforward and easy to follow. Many thanks for a great job!

[buttcaner]

Thank you great video. I tried getting home assistant running a couple of days ago from another video with no luck. Seems to have worked following your instructions. Hope you will continue as I'm keen to get some automation happening... :)

[senseianeik]

Great video. Detailed and very clearly explained.

[AceZBrat]

Excellent video, best run thru while attempting to install where everything is so new for us wet behind the ears (novice at present). Cool ... ciao

[rowkjfk]

Thanks for the clear instruction. Very helpfull.

[hilmanahwaa]

He is installing and running every (flavour of) Linux operating systems on his VirtualBox.

[tyriceearl]

Interesting because mine did not come up with a configuration setting, nor supervisor….. Please Advise….? Amazing video by the way….

[laplaceha]

this video is really useful, thx alot!

[edwardbernard]

Great guide. I am currently running HA on Microsoft Hyper-V. Runs extremely well and happy with performance. But as you are likely aware, Hyper-V doesn't support USB pass-though. As my Lan based Vera Plus hub is no longer supported, I may have to migrate to a USB Z-Wave controller soon. Hence, I may now migrate VM off Hyper-V. Hyper-V is very lite and fast. Any chance that running VirtualBox as lite/fast when compared to Hyper-V? I've read from others that VB may introduce latency with the host Windows 10 system. Any insight or perspective from anyone is greatly appreciated.

[fredericmelancon]

For noobs out there as myself, be sure to activate Virtualisation from Bios to be sure that the Other Linux in 64 bit is available and not just the 32 bit. Thx for the vid, it was perfect.

[danielschwerin]

Thank you for this information. Have performed the download / installation several times on the virtual machine (windows 10) because of different computer(s). The question that I have is how do I completely delete the home assistant from the virtual machine? seems like every time I install the virtual machine it finds the previous home assistant (with previous set up). I'm trying to perform a completely new installation on everything, but cannot seem to remove the previous home assistant.

[terrybates]

Thanks for the great video. I was thinking of installing on my home computer. Can I still use the memory for my every day tasks which was assigned to virtual box or do I lose that memory to Virtual box

[amolmatekar]

Really Good, Guidance from beginners. personally i like your efforts to teaching to others. can you help me regarding this Home Assistant