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# On February 9, 2024 at 09:29

[@oivaeskola](https://toot.community/@oivaeskola) Are you planning on running HomeAssistant on macOS inside Virtualbox? In that case you can run the official MQTT broker add-on <https://github.com/home-assistant/addons/blob/master/mosquitto/DOCS.md> and MQTT component <https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/mqtt/> alongside the zigbee2mqtt add-on <https://github.com/zigbee2mqtt/hassio-zigbee2mqtt#installation>