There is little performance overhead from running a VM. However there’s a substantial administrative overhead for keeping a virtualization system running just for home assistant.

If this a hobby to you, sure, you do you. Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted. But it’s way less effort to just run everything you need in a container stack - especially if are you already running containers for other things.

Yeah, just set them up in another container.

Addons are just software.

I only run mosquitto right now, but it’s not exactly hard or complicated or time consuming to set up.

There’s “creepy and offputting” and then there’s this question.

There is no compelling reason to run home assistant in a vm instead of in a container.

I’d get rid of the virtualization layer in your specific case and save yourself a lot of hassle, especially on smaller systems.

Stop being a furry.

Furries keep the Internet running. Anger them at your own peril.

Intel GPU claims are NEVER true.