Home Assistant and Kodi on NUC - is Proxmox the right answer?

[ghstudio]

I want to use my NUC7i5 to run Home Assistant and I want to run KODI on the same NUC. Unfortunately, Home Assistant runs under Debian and I need to run KODI 18.x which requires Ubuntu (Only KODI 17.x is supported on Debian). I’ve been trying to work with Proxmox…two VM’s, one for HA, the other for Ubuntu/KODI but a NUC but the NUC only has one graphics adapter which is grabbed by Proxmox. I need the graphics adapter assigned to the Ubuntu/KODI VM. I’ve tried everything I can find to get graphics pass thru working with no success.

I’m thinking that maybe Proxmox isn’t the answer…maybe I should be using ESXI or virtualbox or ??? but I’d appreciate advice on which way to go…or some clear help on how to get graphics assigned to a VM using proxmox.

 

[Teberon]

Doesn't Home Assistant need a Debian based Linux distribution and not specifically Debian?
Also have you had a look at this?
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/gpu-passthrough-tutorial-reference.34303/

 

[ghstudio]

yes, Home Assistant is only supported under Debian...not Ubuntu. It would be easy if Kodi 18 ran on Debian...I'd just put debian on proxmox and be done with it....But I need Ubuntu to run Kodi version 18 with both graphics and audio working with that VM. I'll give passthru another try, but I'm wondering if using ESXI or Virtual Box might be easier/simpler...I'm not at all familiar with either of them.

 

[Bertiks]

Proxmox is as valid a solution as docker can be. I think that just for that, you don't need a hypervisor.

 

[ghstudio]

Proxmox is as valid a solution as docker can be. I think that just for that, you don't need a hypervisor.

The problem is getting the audio/video assigned to the Ubuntu/Kodi VM......not to Proxmox itself. I haven't been able to get that working. Thus the question is one of the other virtuatlizization choices better. I will be adding other VM's...eg. pfSense