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what specifically are you having problems with?
Really there is no reason not to run things in a VM. VMs isolate the application from a host failure if configured for failover. They also help to 'sandbox' functionality much the same way (although arguably more securely) as containers.
VMs are capable of greater uptime than a single physical device (broadly speaking) because of the ability to have failover and storage redundancy.
Aside from this, its mostly just a preference on my part.
Side note: Home Assistant will reconnect to all the devices whenever it comes back online so while it would have to be on 24/7 for it to control all the devices, there is no penalty in terms of reconfiguration, if the HA instance is offline