Home Assistant OS VM Mini PC Workload

decision scope

Prerequisite fit for the specified VM allocation; not an integration-count or recorder-performance benchmark.

application release

Home Assistant Core 2026.7.4

version scope

>=2026.7.4 <2026.8.0

deployment

Home Assistant OS in a KVM virtual machine

nesting depth

1

runtime chain

KVM virtual machine → Home Assistant OS generic x86-64

recipe lifecycle

candidate

inspect the version-scoped application record →

default assumptions

These values are part of the recipe fingerprint. A field labeled “must be answered” is intentionally unknown until the user supplies it.

vm vcpu

2

vm memory gi b

4

vm disk gi b

32

secure boot disabled

must be answered

decision context

existing hardware

capability checks

minimum / recipe-required checks

8

recommended checks

0

workload-dependent boundary

all checks apply only to this bounded recipe

“Required” means required by this maintained recipe; it is not automatically the vendor’s universal minimum. “Recommended” can make a result Conditional but cannot be silently promoted into a hard requirement.

No machine has been selected on this page, so nothing below describes your hardware. Each row states what the recipe expects, then the sentence a profile would receive if it does not meet that expectation.

x86-64 architecture

compute · recipe-required
grade B

one of x86_64 or x86_64-v2
if a profile does not meet it: The selected image requires x86-64.

Hardware virtualization for the VM

virtualization · recipe-required
grade D

required
if a profile does not meet it: The selected deployment is a VM and needs hardware virtualization.

UEFI boot support

operational · recipe-required
grade B

required
if a profile does not meet it: The generic x86-64 Home Assistant OS image expects UEFI.

2 vCPU VM minimum

compute · recipe-required
grade B

at least 2
if a profile does not meet it: Home Assistant OS documents a minimum allocation of 2 vCPUs for a virtual machine.

2 GiB VM memory minimum

memory · recipe-required
grade B

at least 2
if a profile does not meet it: Home Assistant OS documents a minimum allocation of 2 GiB RAM for a virtual machine.

4 GiB VM planning budget

memory · recipe-required
grade D

at least 4
if a profile does not meet it: This modeled Home Assistant VM allocates 4 GiB.

32 GiB VM disk planning budget

storage · recipe-required
grade D

at least 32
if a profile does not meet it: This modeled VM allocates a 32 GiB disk.

Secure Boot disabled

operational · recipe-required
grade B

required
if a profile does not meet it: Confirm that Secure Boot is disabled before treating the setup as compatible.

architecture and acceleration conditions

Each row here already appears in the capability check list above. This section repeats the checks that turn on instruction set, media engine, or virtualization support. The full check list carries the sentence each row produces when a profile does not meet it.

x86-64 architecture

compute · required

one of x86_64 or x86_64-v2

Hardware virtualization for the VM

virtualization · required

required

2 vCPU VM minimum

compute · required

at least 2

known issues in this app and workload scope

No known issue is attached to this app/version/workload scope. That means “none recorded” as of the review date, not proof that no issue exists.

benchmark protocol and tested hardware

• protocol-home-assistant-restart-recovery-v1 — ready unexecuted; version 1.0.0; no result is implied by protocol readiness.

No exact hardware configuration has an accepted Grade A run for this workload. The result ledger is empty and no measured throughput, stability, thermal, or power claim is made.

performance boundary

evaluate this recipe on an exact profile