north nova
Hi everyone,
I’m having issues with a Home Assistant installation running inside Oracle VirtualBox and I’m hoping someone can help me understand what is wrong with my setup.
Current setup
Home Assistant OS
Running in Oracle VirtualBox on Windows
Home Assistant Core: 2026.5.4
Supervisor: 2026.05.0
Operating System: 17.3
Frontend: 20260429.4
Supervisor appears to be running correctly.
I can access Home Assistant normally through the browser and all integrations/automations work correctly.
The problem
I do NOT see:
Add-ons
Add-on Store
Terminal & SSH
HACS
in the UI.
Under Settings I only see:
Devices & Services
Automations
Dashboards
System
Developer tools
etc.
But no Add-ons section anywhere.
What we already tested
- Advanced mode
Enabled Advanced Mode in the user profile.
No difference.
- Direct Supervisor URLs
Tried:
/hassio
/hassio/dashboard
Did not solve the issue.
- HACS manual installation attempts
Opened the VM console directly in VirtualBox.
Entered:
login
Successfully reached root shell (# prompt).
- Tried official HACS install command
Attempted:
curl -fsSL https://get.hacs.xyz/ | bash
Issues encountered:
wget not found
git not found
apk not found
The shell/environment seems extremely minimal.
- Verified Home Assistant config location
Successfully accessed:
cd /mnt/data/supervisor/homeassistant
and confirmed files such as:
configuration.yaml
automations.yaml
scripts.yaml
scenes.yaml
exist there.
- Tried manual HACS install
Created:
custom_components
But manual clone failed because:
git: not found
Additional information
Despite the missing Add-ons UI:
Supervisor is visible as an integration
Automations work perfectly
SMA Solar integration works
LG ThinQ integration works
Home Assistant behaves normally otherwise