trying to setup home assistant vm

[kinghat]

home assistant distribute a qcow2 for people to setup their vm with but they suggest you use "Generic Linux" as the os variant but i dont see how i can do that in cockpit.

also, it needs to have a uefi firmware but when importing a vm that is not an option, even if i defer immediately starting that vm. is there a way around this?

[garrett]

I've opened an issue @ #500 for "Generic Linux". I know we use libosinfo. There's an "unknown" type, but it's filtered out.

Home Assistant is using buildroot and isn't a typical OS https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/operating-system ... but I'd suggest trying Debian or Alpine for now and see what happens.

[garrett]

Oh, as stated in the linked issue, we do actually have generic Linux in the listing.

Make sure you're not selecting download, but using the image via import, as it's a predefined qcow2 image.

Make sure the qcow2 exists on the system Cockpit is running on, specify the path to the qcow2 file, and you should hopefully be good.

[garrett]

also, it needs to have a uefi firmware but when importing a vm that is not an option, even if i defer immediately starting that vm. is there a way around this?

I'm guessing it should detect a UEFI partition on the disk... but this is a wild guess and there's a good chance I'm just wrong. 😉

@KKoukiou, @martinpitt, or @marusak would likely know more about UEFI in Cockpit Machines.

[martinpitt]

Often it should be auto-detected by libvirt, but if you want to create a new VM, then uncheck the "immediately start" checkbox, and before starting, click on "Firmware":

and select UEFI: