Plex on ProxMox Tutorial WITH nVidia Hardware Encoding

[@kdb424]

Please never tell people to install nvidia drivers that way. There are better ways to install the driver with apt-get that will keep it up to date automatically with the rest of the system. Linux is not Windows. Manually installing drivers from the web is a last resort.

[@kdb424]

@@SakuraChan00 Whatever is latest. The number is the driver version.

[@billychia-lungtai4692]

Thanks for the excellent guide. Evidently two years later it's still gold!

[@HannsSchulmeister]

that, my friend, went smoothly. Proxmox 8.2.2, P400, Lubuntu, Plex - I thank you very much for this.

[@RonaldMorrissetteJr]

really enjoyed the instructions as I will soon be running a Plex VM on my proxmox server, not so sure about crossing fingers or magic buttons.

[@VinnyVidiVintage]

Love your channel. Thanks for all you do.

[@BansheeBunny]

Thinking of sandboxing Pelx, nice video. What are your thoughts on RAM Disk for transcode temp folder, yes/no, size?

[@ozbusa]

Awesome. Great video. Something to do over the Xmas holidays. Can 2 or more vm's share one physical card? Or is it 1 card per vm?

[@CraftComputing]

One card per VM unfortunately.

[@NightHawkATL]

I have been enjoying the option for hardware transcoding and am finding that I can now do direct play smoothly on most TVs. I ran into an odd issue today where the video card was not seen and the drivers were not loaded. I rebooted and then re-installed the drivers and rebooted again and it started working again. Running nvidia-smi at first shoed that the drivers were not loaded. after reinstall, I ran nvidia-smi again and it showed that they were running again. After that, I was getting an issue where it said that I was out of space to transcode so I resized the disk from 20G as you showed to 100G and then also made an entry to /etc/fstab to add a remote source for transcoding on a TrueNAS share. I verified that browsing to the folder that should be for transcode by adding a file and making sure that I could view it as a file on the PLEX machine. Is there anything else that I need to do to make sure that this doesn't happen again? Is there any way to auto-flush the transcode folder?

[@TechnoTim]

Nice work! Love NVENC for encoding/transcoding!

[@frizzletits8511]

Oi hi tim good to see you here

[@TechnoTim]

@@frizzletits8511 can’t think of a better place!

[@CraftComputing]

The beer is cold, and so are the servers 😉

[@michael.pachuta]

Hi Tim!

[@JeanFrancoCaringi]

Nice to see you here!

[@annihilatorg]

Well that sorts my activity for this evening. Thank you for having a REAL walkthrough of this process where so many others miss the most common failures.

[@JeffRaye]

Anyone having the issue where if the VM reboots the NVIDIA drivers don't load? I have to reinstall the drivers each time.

[@supernenechi]

All I get when running nvidia-smi is the message: no devices were found. Do you have any idea how this could happen? I followed both your guide, the guide on Reddit and I googled the error, but they all tell me that I need to install the proprietary driver rather than the "open" one, but I am already using the proprietary driver!

[@neonicacid]

Jeff - At 5:22, you can usually just triple-click to select the whole line. Saves a bit of time instead of having to manually drag over the whole selection on a long command.

[@ComsicQuestGG]

you do run into the issue of it picking up an unneeded space at the end of the line. Which may run you into some issues. When it comes to server reconfigs or anything infra related I like to take the time and make sure I'm using only what I need and spamming ctrl+c to make sure it's copied lol.

[@jcreek23]

I have done this using Proxmox, Ubuntu Server VM, then Plex running in a Docker container, and with MakeMKV in another Docker container for automated ripping.

[@Gastell0]

So um, when are you going to make a Part 8 for "Trying out SR-IOV - Cloud Gaming Server Part 7", since you've mistakenly assigned 1/16th of the GPU chip or 1/32th of GPU total power in that video?

[@denvera1g1]

I wish AMD had a good H265 and general purpose hardware transcoder, i just ordered a R5 Pro 4650GE for my new plex DVR, NVR build i dont have space for a video card with all the TV tuners and the network card Edit, if AMD had a good build in transcoder i could probably get away with something like a 3200GE or even athlon 3000. Heck the 3050e in that $170 Lenovo Nano IOT PC would probably be enough for multiple 4k playback(but not recording)

[@mikehipp71]

I've been enjoying a similar setup with an old Quadro K4200 passed through! First time I've ever been ahead of your videos instead of following them!

[@OGH3294]

Quardro P400 limits number of concurrent streams(sessions) to 3. Override those with keylase/nvidia-patch on github.

[@CraftComputing]

I was actually thinking of posting a quick video about unlocking the limiter.

[@magfelsic4909]

A video about this would be greatly appreciated.

[@rodgers954]

@@CraftComputing Oh yes please ! It will be very usefull ;)

[@RyouConcord]

LITERALLY was about to do just this, and you release a video for it. You the effin' MAN!

[@CraftComputing]

I know

[@RyouConcord]

@@CraftComputing Say, any particular reason you didn't use an LXC container? I'm reading that GPU passthrough will still work in an LXC container, except that you can share the GPU with multiple containers instead of "marrying" it to a single VM using passthrough.

[@marcosscriven]

@@CraftComputing Have you considered using LXC rather than a whole VM?

[@ryanmalone2681]

That shit doesn't work. Used a fresh install and nothing shows up in the root plexmedia folder after going through all that. Even the plexmedia folder isn't even visible in Plex, nevermind the actual content of the remote share. Ended up using the command below and it worked, but Plex still can't see it. Must be some permissioning that needs to be done which Jeff didn't bother to show or cover. //servername/sharename /media/windowsshare cifs guest,uid=1000 0 0

[@robinjansson4886]

Thank you for a very good guide. Small room for improvement: It would be worth mentioning that your CPU & Motherboard has to support IOMMU. Just like you covered what graphics cards support encoding/decoding what codec. I followed this guide only to find out in the last step that my Motherboard does not support IOMMU.

[@wallyrogers2371]

Yeah this turns out to be kind of important when you can't figure out why the GPU won't passthrough!

[@claytonsingh]

When passing through a multifunction I recomend you check the "All Fucntions" box when assigning the device. It will then show in the guest as one device with two or more functions (like it does on the host).

[@timmitchell9021]

I said the same thing lol

[@kalyan3]

issue I hit was at 8:52 - Plex didn't have permissions to access the /PlexMedia folder. I just moved this location to my home/downloads folder and added the 'Plex' user to the root group.

[@Gillymonsterproductions]

Still not sure why you use PuTTY still. It's built into Windows 10 now. You can just ssh user@hostname now. I could see using it for serial connections, but I don't see you doing that much on the channel. Just something I have noticed since I subbed. Cheers!

[@rubydoe1997]

came here to say this

[@seths1997]

every time i hear jeff talk about that lexar nvme drive at the beginning it makes me think he can be the price is right announcer

[@gtbarsi1103]

We need an updated version of this dealing with updated version of ubuntu and the issues with UEFI bios and kernel mode drivers requiring signing by trusted certificates. I've wasted a lot of time trying to get around this today.

[@dragonhead01]

If you want to take the plex server to the limit, increase the RAM allotment and create a RAM disk to be used for transcoding output temp disk, it makes a huge difference

[@n3ttx580]

Coincidentally, I was doing this 3 days ago. I made VM, fiddled with proxmox to get passthrough working, and then installed Plex in the VM. But just then I've noticed that I need to have PlexPass in order to use encoding. And since I really don't want to pay for watching _absolutely 100% purchased and legally owned_ movies, I've scrapped Plex. In search for an alternative, I've found Jellyfin. It's opensource, totally free, UI looks 100x better (although sometimes you need to click twice on something), it isn't bloated with PlexTV crap and - it uses ffmpeg for encoding. That means you just basically install Jellyfin, nvidia drivers, ffmpeg, and change the default encoder in Jellyfin setting to ffmpeg. No need to register, purchase or subscribe to anything. It's excellent alternative to Plex, with every function that Plex have - but for free.

[@mormantu8561]

13:10 I want to point out that if you use ZFS for your Proxmox install, you need to make these changes to systemd not grub as shown in the video.

[@tydlig]

Oh if I only read this comment earlier. Lots of googling before I found out this. And why wouldnt you use ZFS for your OS. Weird.

[@mormantu8561]

@@tydlig Was in the same boat, rewatched this video and thought. I am not going to be the only one x)

[@MorganH94]

For the poor fool who is on ZFS like myself and also wasted many hours trying to make this work: The kernel commandline needs to be placed as one line in /etc/kernel/cmdline. To apply your changes, run proxmox-boot-tool refresh, which sets it as the option line for all config files in loader/entries/proxmox-*.conf.

[@laloajuria4678]

why did i watch this.....? edit: the whole thing. i dont have a server. or use plex....

[@joran4612]

Me 2

[@bartbatenburg]

To use it in the future?

[@hendeeze]

I have a home server, and plex. The only time i use plex is when I'm mobile. Otherwise it's browsing to my folder and opening via VLC lol

[@vlmxs]

Me 3

[@sutty101]

Thanks for this video. So clear and even in 2024 was followed perfectly. Added a Quadro P2000 to my ML350 Gen10 today and after setting up Proxmox and Plex over the weekend. I followed this today and it worked first time, no issues.

[@26dx]

After doing some changes to fstab, it's faster to do mount -a instead a system reboot (;

[@beauregardslim1914]

Rebooting occasionally while making changes to important system files can help you figure out what you did wrong when your server doesn't boot properly.

[@clblanchard08]

@@beauregardslim1914 Exactly. I've had a mount -a work, but then the drive wouldn't mount on reboot for some reason.

[@Skracken]

For me, I had an issue of networking not being up yet when it tried to mount the network drives. I added a command to mount on access, which works great.

[@gsrcrxsi]

It’s probably better from a security standpoint to not put passwords exposed as plain text in the fstab file. Best to create a hidden credentials file with strict access permissions that can only be read/modified by root. Use the credentials file in the fstab instead to prevent your user credentials for your NAS from being exposed in the case of a breach. That way if the system was ever compromised they only have access to that system and not an easy pathway to access your data on the network.

[@ComsicQuestGG]

hmm something I'll have to look into. Sounds very enticing.

[@bindkeys]

Is there a reason for using a VM instead of a CT?

[@mostlyindica]

Yeah i use a CT myself for this.

[@EndUserTube]

Transcoding is unnecessary (for me) on my local network (even over 802.11ac) when I use the Plex client app. I don't use a browser to view my Plex content as I want to avoid the high CPU usage that you demonstrated when you viewed your Plex content via a browser. I'm testing playback of 6 4K HDR streams to 6 different devices. All are using the Plex client app and my Plex server CPU usage is nice and low as Direct Play is being used.

[@LesKingBNE]

I love these home server videos. Perfect for this platform.

[@talideon]

I'm pretty sure that version of the Nvidia driver is actually packaged for Ubuntu. I prefer to do that as it means someone else is keeping it patched.

[@l4nsocrates]

Thanks a lot, works like a charme. On Debian 10, you have also install "apt install linux-headers-$(uname -r) dkms build-essential" , to run the nvidia installer. Greetings from Germany

[@pichlalex]

first: a real good guide to do this!!!!! second: my reccomendations to improve this guide (i am doing the same, but based on vmware free esxi) in /etc/fstab: add ",_netdev" after the password to ensure that the CIFS filesystem gets mounted after the network is full loaded. also a good improvement: add a dependency in systemd that the share should be mounted before plex starts. But this is definitly optional: currently plex handles a not accessible library very well!

[@Jay.M]

Hi, why use a VM instead of LXC? My Plex runs fine with LXC and I assume there's less overheads

[@davidsilwanowicz3444]

Hey All, for the people that are having problems with nvidia-smi returning "no devices found". Install the Nvidia Driver version to what Jeff uses in the video. Solved issue for me.

[@CPMFrisirus]

thank you so much!

[@rullywow3834]

Awesome vid, as usual. How about doing this with a LXC container?

[@RyanDavis87]

You should look into running the plex server as an LXC container. I have two running on Ubuntu 20.04 containers and sharing the same graphics card and network share. It lets me manage things a little better, with stellar performance!

[@nathanielbeven9052]

why would you want to tie your whole hypervisor kernel to a potential panic caused by any LXC? if your system supports iommu and you run host level cpu in a raw format, the performance is almost the same

[@developerpranav]

This video teaches a lot more than Plex. Thanks!

[@Chrispmiller84]

Lol, I went through all of this to setup my old Quadro card for transcoding and only realized after about a hundred problems to fix, that it required a monthly fee. And as a fairly poor man, I did all of this for nothing. :/ Edit: I managed to get a free month trial of Plex Pass just so I could test my setup. However, it didn't work. After reading through some of the proxmox docs, I found some compatibility info that I tried. That worked for me. I had to create a new VM with these settings (direct from proxmox docs): When passing through a GPU, the best compatibility is reached when using q35 as machine type, OVMF (EFI for VMs) instead of SeaBIOS and PCIe instead of PCI. Note that if you want to use OVMF for GPU passthrough, the GPU needs to have an EFI capable ROM, otherwise use SeaBIOS instead. This worked on a dual xeon e5-2680v1 server with an old quadro k420 I had lying around. Remember to check if your GPU has an EFI capable ROM (google it). Good luck!

[@darklocksly3615]

Was looking to try this until 22:50 when it became clear you have to pay for a feature in plex. Cool video tho.

[@arjdroid]

Yeah, currently experimenting with Jellyfin (FOSS [Free Open Source] plex alternative) although don't know about any nVenc encoder support for my GTX 1050 Ti yet

[@rubydoe1997]

@@arjdroid i'd also like to use jellyfin, but neither my tv or other devices have a jellyfin app. Meanwhile every single device i own has a plex app available. Im kind of forced to use plex at this point.

[@bartbatenburg]

Well, they do pay their employees

[@darklocksly3615]

@@bartbatenburg Then they should stop being bloatware on my NV Shield TV without the option to de-install. Be bloatware or a legit software pack, not both.

[@pjohnson21211]

ugh putty!!!! install WSL and use ssh from a CLI :-) also 2 bit opinions. Step 1 after install updates for OS, Step 2 set up auto patching for OS, Step 3 add other software. and finally for auto mounting a share don't hardcode the creds in fstab (world readable by default) credentials=/etc/sambaUser_Password and make that readable only by root.

[@bitlinkchai]

Don't forget to install the qemu-guest agent on your linux VMs (graceful shutdowns and backups) pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Qemu-guest-agent

[@benzenegaming3199]

With Proxmox, you can just do it through the interface and it will add it itself to vfio.conf

[@ComsicQuestGG]

Hot Fix: When adding the GPU via PCIe device from the host. Especially if using a HP Proliant DL360 G7 as the host. You will need to select the GPU and ensure that the 'ROM Bar' box is checked. *Also on the host make sure your IOMMU and VFIO configs were saved. **Mine decided to show as saving, but didn't had to do it again. And, when you are hiding the Host CPU from the VM you will need to add the following line instead of modifying it: cpu: host,hidden=1 This is for Hiding the VM identifiers from Nvidia in the /etc/pve/qemu-server directory. Hopefully this helps others not have to spend hours troubleshooting like I did haha.

[@yobdrzl]

FYI for anyone having any mount issues. Not sure why, with my latest version of Ubuntu server to this date, I had to install samba, enable and then start it just before rebooting the vm to see the mount work correctly (at least back to my synology). Thanks for the video overall though! Really has helped me!

[@DanielandStuff7]

meh PCIe Passthrough - i use gpu passthrough with LXC, which has bonus it is not exclusive to any vm. also works very good!

[@samzick6301]

I have my p2000 passed through to LXC Ubuntu, allowing me to share my card betweem Plex, Emby, and Tdarr. I also do something similar with a QuadHD Tuner card.

[@RoyHess666]

Thats interesting, I have 4 of these Quadro P400 GPUs laying around, unused.

[@troyBORG]

I tried to passthough the P400 I just bought. But as soon as I try to start the VM the whole server stops responding and I see a "Invalid PCI Rom Header signature" on the monitor output of the server. Passthough of my GTX 1070, and RTX 3060 worked just fine on the server. But the P400 will not work.

[@egomatthisum]

great video. I recently bought a dell r620 for the purpose of running Plex and pfSense on it and actually couldn't find a tutorial that explained how to properly set up Proxmox for PCI-e pass-through. I'll see if i can get it working when i have a bit more time. ~EM

[@NeoSteelZero]

This worked for afew months, then i noticed something was wrong, and did a test, it shows no HW transcoding in plex. after using nvidia-smi i got this "NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running." i ended up having to install the driver again, i dont understand what could've happened, have you seen this problem?

[@dozern]

Now, if you're not up for actually getting a quadro card, you can use the cheaper "consumer"-cards. You do need to modify the drivers a bit though. github.com/keylase/nvidia-patch should help you along. I'm using a 1650-card in a virtualized environment myself (vmware though), and it works quite well, multiple streams are good.

[@conorkeane]

Thanks for this Jeff, finally have a machine dedicated to Proxmox that I can pass through an Nvidia card to. I've had this bookmarked since it came out and I'm really happy it worked for me! Keep up the great work!

[@d1gg3r]

This doesn't seem to work on proxmox 7...any tips?

[@d1gg3r]

Nevermind, there were some other factors it appears - setup of prox (zfs raid1 and not using grub for some reason), having a DV cable still plugged in as well...lots of fun stuff

[@TetraProxy]

For going near servers try ANC headphones/Earbuds, or something like Loops( hearing protection designed for concerts)

[@thesecretreviewer8242]

this killed my proxmox :( after further days of trying to fix it removed my NIC (network card) from showing up. It set the default driver to VFIO. Hard to fix Proxmox with no working network let me tell you.

[@pudzianwrc]

Can I use Nvidia binary driver from Ubuntu repository ? Instead of manually installing it ?

[@supernova-4420]

Is it important to configure pci pass through WITHOUT the gpu installed? I have followed this Reddit guide with my quadro p620 installed throughout and my vm won’t start after assigning the gpu in hardware section 😢

[@kishan210790]

Task viewer: VM 100 - Start OutputStatus Stop kvm: -device vfio-pci,host=0000:0f:00.0,id=hostpci1,bus=pci.0,addr=0x11: vfio 0000:0f:00.0: device is already attached TASK ERROR: start failed: QEMU exited with code 1

[@timmitchell9021]

There is an 'all functions' checkbox for passed through pci devices :)

[@jacobwalters7674]

I'm following this guide, but when attempting to run ubuntu after passing the graphics card I'm getting "nouveau 0000:00:10.0: fifo: fault 01 [WRITE] at 0000000001130000 engine 05 [BAR2] client 08 [HUB/HOST_CPU_NB] reason 02 [PTE] on channel -1 000ffebf000 unknown]" I've gone through this guide twice with the same result. I'm running: motherboard: TUF gaming x570 Plus Processor: Ryzen 5 3600 Graphics: 1050TI And on Proxmox version 17-2 Ubuntu 20.04.3 Any guidance would help.

[@DG-ks5wn]

Good Tutorial👍 Despite that I have a question: Should I use vlans in proxmox when creating VMs? I know what those are but is it worth it if like 3 VMs are communicating with each other because they need to (example Plex, Nas etc)? So they would be in the same Network with no vlan. Would that make Sense? For accessing the proxmox overlay I would like to get a second nic, so the VMs are not able to get to the proxmox overlay and its more secure?😅

[@noerdar]

Please mention that this only works on UBUNTU not using UEFI with the commands in this guide with the NVIDIA DRIVER

[@nerdingtech8111]

TL:DR; of my headache, Proxmox hosts the Samba share from my ZFS pool, but a CT requires additional privilege to actually mount it. I learned the hard way, if you try to use a CT for Plex in Proxmox with Samba hosted on the same machine, it won't work. You will have to use a VM rather than the CT options. It seems like if you have Samba running on another machine a CT may work; but try this if you are bombarded by "Permission Denied" when trying to mount the CIFS.

[@Megatog615]

omg... don't install the Nvidia drivers from the website. the drivers are in the Ubuntu package repositories. 🤦

[@GeoffSeeley]

I prefer to use the driverctl package to control the kernel drivers as I find it much cleaner and easier. As a bonus, if you have two identical cards (say HBAs) you can allow Proxmox to use one and pass through the other to a VM. You should also mention that the grub stuff does NOT apply to users who installed Proxmox with UEFI and ZFS root drives.

[@durubalastefan7369]

hey there, i just installed proxmox on zfs and i was going to go through this tutorial when i saw your comment. can you please point me into the right direction to make this work on zfs?

[@Jombo1]

6:31 just learned that its called fs-tab and not f-stab lol

[@jacobcrisman6834]

All was good until 8:14, I have my network share available, it's listed in /etc/fstab. But I cannot add any folders for the Librarys. I get continuous errors from Windows, saying that I need permission from /TRUNAS/Nobody to creat folders? I have had TruNas network shares before and have never had this issue? Any Ideas?

[@dimitristsoutsouras2712]

Before someone even starts the procedure. Is this info still valid? Because none seems to mention that to the check-before-list. >>>>>>> In other words is your guide valid (by valid I mean if same conf files and cli commands have to be entered for the same paths or conf files) only if the Host machine running Proxmox configured as legacy boot or uefi also (because of the above comment)?

[@HumblyNeil]

This is a great tutorial, I'm looking forward to trying this out. However, I'm curious is there a way to run the GPU with a fan curve? I'm setting this up in an old workstation with a modified GPU (huge heatsink) that barely needs any fan assistance.

[@alanrussell6678]

I did this with a Nvidia GT710 card. All went well with the transcoding configuration. I thought though shouldn't I be able to see the output of the Plex VM on one of the 3 outputs of the 710 card - vga, hmdi or dvi? Connected all 3 methods to a monitor and nothing. If I check All Functions and/or Primary GPU in the PCI Device config then the VM won't boot. Am I missing something thinking I can get a monitor output from the Plex VM?

[@VintageTechRepairs]

in need of your help, I'm stuck at chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-285.05.09.run, chmod: cannot access 'NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-460.56.run': No such file or directory. this is annoying- any advice?

[@stevebooth1874]

I have a NUC running Ubuntu 20.04 Server LTS and a Plex server (Plex, Sonarr , Radarr, Lidarr, NZBget, etc) in docker containers and am trying to have it save to and retrieve media files from a TrueNAS 12 file server. I am having trouble setting up the dateset on the server and the Plex server to access it. Any help would be appreciated.

[@marcinkw.858]

Me disabling hardware encoding on plex server and letting client to encode stuff because I'm running plex on RPI2 with OMV watching you installing graphic card to speed up the process... :D

[@tatersaladfpv1033]

At 7:10 what is the difference here between using CIFS vs NFS for example? Personally I have a brtfs share setup on Synology I'd like to connect to. Would I stil use CIFS?

[@PitFighter2007]

no network to promox server once pci gpu passthrough is enabled...follow umptine guides on workarounds for pci addressing issues, kernel 5.15 issues etc etc..just doesnt work for me...the guide and process is sound, however promox forums still have ppl scratching their heads. I'm thinking I'll have to switch from a vm for plex to metal..damn shame.

[@tpayne57]

I am trying this just on bare metal (no proxmox) and i get the NVidia driver installed and my nvidia-smi command outputs properly, but Plex continues to use the Intel CPU Hardware transcoding (identified by top command showing high cpu usage during transcoding and the nvidia-smi showing the GPU isnt doing anything) what am i doing wrong?

[@superlamzi]

Followed all the steps to the dot, but when I execute "nvidia-smi" it just hangs. No error, no messages, just hangs, and I have to reboot the VM. Any suggestions?

[@gtbarsi1103]

In the end I had to uninstall the nvidia driver I installed using this method thanks to UEFI bios restrictions. Then I followed some other directions and Installed Nvidia Drivers using a standard Ubuntu Repository. The driver install was very easy and nvidia-smi returns good data. It would be good to see a follow-up video on this subject...

[@TetraProxy]

mounting shares with systemd daemons and an .automount file will be more reliable and reconnect after network loss.

[@RemyDMarquis]

I have done everything but I'm still unable to enable HW transcoding. The current driver seems to block noueavue or whatever it is called by default and everything is running fine but still no HW Transcoding. I have tried disabling the main display and also making the PCIE the primary GPU and still nothing nvidia-smi shows no usage whatsoever either. I have no idea what is going on

[@LittleBear85]

Hi Jeff I was wondering if you could do an update for this video I'm having trouble accessing my media from a truenas scale vm running in proxmox. I've created a Ubuntu server hosting plexmediaserver but am having trouble accessing the files from the truenas scale. Thank you as always your awesome

[@browneye1967]

I got the Plex server built this was, worked fine initially. Left if for a couple of days, came back to it and It can't play anything. Rebooted the VM and the Server won't even respond now to the web address. Any ideas?

[@tibby4366]

I'm having trouble getting mine to work. Is running SeaBIOS my problem? i get a "no devices were found" error after running the Nvidia-smi command

[@johntankard]

Is this still a good way of doing this in 2023? I'm new to Linux and when I followed step by step the nvidia driver just failed with a message about the kernel...

[@twhottechstuff4075]

Hey Jeff, I have issues installing my nvida driver. I try to mix with two of your video I split my GPU into two that GPU works under Win10 Vm, and I can also pass that to ubuntu server (I can see if I do lspci -v), But when I try to install nvidia driver it complain everytime during installation and stop. Not sure what I'm doing wrong here. My ubuntu server VM need to be at Q35 on the vm otherwise I can't pass my GPU (or I get issue with starting vm) is maybe this my issue? Any Idea?

[@leif8436]

I suggest you checking out Jellyfin. it is an opensource media server and in my opinion it is way nicer than plex. it isnt as polished as plex but still very usable (except for the android tv app). No phoning home no subscription needed all for free with a nice community to back it up

[@wille1101]

100% agree. Why people still use Plex is beyond me.

[@leif8436]

@@wille1101 if i had to make a guess. its just what everyone uses and people dont want to try something new

[@BoingoInstaller]

I'm was about to suggest this

[@bartbatenburg]

Bought lifetime license.

[@leif8436]

@@bartbatenburg that's another good reason

[@brockytm5753]

The Passthrough didn't work for me. Am I missing something? Followed along, used the right path but nothing is showing when LS command is done.

[@BloodyIron]

Why exactly did you not install the nVidia drivers from aptitude/repos? That driver will never get updated since it's not managed by apt...

[@edvarim]

I have a slight issue. After following your guide, for some reason my plex cannot optimize files with " Converted files cannot be written to the server's disk" error. Is there something that i missed?

[@jart122]

I can't get this to work and I followed every step. My harware is a hp z840 and I'm trying to passthrough a p400, I tried with grub and with cmdline. Install and reinstall both.

[@johnconnorstopskynet]

I spent a lot of time explaining to fellow users how to do this on ZFS and with the included driver on the Ubuntu ISO, but my comment got taken down. Sorry guys guess somebody doesn't want you to learn.

[@c.m.7037]

Gahh, this was almost perfect but I am trying trying to do this in vmware. Back to searching...

[@jdlarrimo]

I’ve followed the channel for a good while now, and Im finally putting together what I consider to be my first “real” server, being a 3700x and 64 gigs of ram with a passed through Nvidia gpu. Hopefully I can utilize this well enough without breaking everything.