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Fully Virtualized Gaming Server? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For years I’ve had a dream of building a rack mounted PC capable of splitting its resources to host multiple GPU intensive VMs:

a few gaming VMs
a VM for work that can run Davinci Resolve and Blender renders
an LLM server
a Stable Diffusion server
media server

Just to name a few possibilities…

Everytime I’ve looked into it, it seemed like the technology just wasn’t there yet. I remember a few years ago Linus TT took a shot at it, but in the end suggested the technology (for non-commercial entities) just wasn’t in a comfortable spot yet.

So how far off are we? Obviously AI focused companies seem to make it work, but what possibilities exist for us self-hosters who might also want to run multiple displays in addition to the web gui LLM servers? And without forking out crazy money for GPU virtualization software licenses?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Do you really need multiple VMs, can't you run all at one? The easiest would be to install some windows/Linux on a single machine. Then stream your games with Sunshine/Moonshine and connect over RDP/VPN?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Xen has support for AMD cards intended for this that are fairly inexpensive on eBay. The S7150x2 should be what you're looking for.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

So my desktop is virtio based and uses pcie passthough to passthough the USB controller and GPU. It works fine as long as it has enough cores. There is some setup involved but most hardware works.

On my laptop I use VMs for a few things and that works well as long as you setup the proper guest addons. I use KVM with gnome boxes and virtual manager.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
NAT	Network Address Translation
PCIe	Peripheral Component Interconnect Express
PSU	Power Supply Unit
VPN	Virtual Private Network

5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 5 acronyms.

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