Remote Gaming! (and Video Encoding using Proxmox and GPU Passthrough)

[@TechnoTim]

Have you ever wanted to game remotely? Oh, BTW, if you're new here, welcome! Subscribe for more content like this coming soon!

[@ItherSeed]

RDP isn't that good, you should do a follow up of this video using SPICE (pve.proxmox.com/wiki/SPICE). I made a Win10 VM in Proxmox with this and I think was better.

[@CrypticConsole]

Use steam remote play with the official rpi image for usb powers game stations on each tv

[@jrtapley]

Yes! I use Steam remote play and Parsec both work very well! Haven’t tried moonlight.

[@emeengor698]

Hi :) What I would like to do (I have two GPUs) is to play a game using GPU A and then passthough the feed to a VM and endocde it inside the VM and stream it on twitch using GPUB long story short I refuse to pay 200++ dollars to buy a capture card that wont even render my footage on its own and still will use CPU resources :P Is there a way to achieve that with minimal impact on my main gaming PC ?

[@blkspade23]

@@emeengor698 Sounds like you're over thinking the streaming process. There is no advantage to running a VM on the gaming machine just to stream. You'd either just encode the stream on GPU A (because the hardware is dedicated anyway) or just run 2 GPUs natively on the gaming system and dedicate B to the encode. The closest solution to do it your way would be "Looking Glass", but that assumes you run a Linux Desktop as a host and game in a Windows VM. You could also pass multiple PCIe devices to a VM, which could include a capture card and GPU B, but both methods are needlessly redundant.

[@holeinthesest]

absolutely PERFECT choice of background music, and volume level. I can hear the music, its nice on my ears, But you are still **very** audible. 10/10 Please teach others this sort of audio balancing.

[@TechnoTim]

Thank you so much! Check out my others!

[@Marfprojects]

WARNING. 3:04 This is something to keep in mind. Enabling ACS override can cause a VM Escape because the IOMMU groups are NOT separated properly ACS can fix this by forcing them to be separate groups, but it can cause that a vm can access other memory addresses even though they are not supposed to. If you don't do anything stupid its fine, but be aware if a malware infects the vm, its possible to do a vm escape. any other then that, great video!

[@23Midway23]

Thank you for you video's, they are so helpful. I'm a software engineer and have seen so many tech tutorials. I have to say yours are among the best and clearest I've ever seen. Keep up the awesome work Tim!

[@TechnoTim]

Thank you so much!

[@zacharyberridge7239]

This may be an older video, but just wanted to say thanks for the guides!! I've now got a Proxmox 7 setup, 4 WD 4tb red plus drives, too many SSD's, a Windows VM, an ubuntu VM, and about to add a FreeNas server all onto one machine. This is just awesome stuff! Thank you so much!

[@oliverberridge7706]

Nice name, with a common interest! 😀

[@zacharyberridge7239]

@@oliverberridge7706 wait... What? Our last name isn't exactly common. Are we cousins?

[@oliverberridge7706]

@@zacharyberridge7239 My thoughts exactly! 😀

[@roxxor0]

Thanks for including the CLI commands, I feel like a lot of people leave those out. I really appreciate the effort and attention to detail.

[@TechnoTim]

Ryan Best no problem! I try to keep all the copy pasta needed for each video in my GitHub repo! Thanks for noticing!

[@Diastolicflame]

actually really informative. I've always thought about virtualization because I run like multiboot setups for different things and this seals the deal if I can pass through my gpus.

[@clearx6182]

"go out and buy 2 video cards" hahahaha good one

[@reggieangus5325]

2022 and still no GPU

[@TheWinning247]

I wanna thumbs up this, but the likes are on 69, so nice!

[@yugarthsharma626]

There's also single GPU Passthrough if you wanna do that.

[@Goldman5800]

​@@yugarthsharma626will it work on ryzen APU? I have no dedicated GPU, only integrated in my ryzen 5700G

[@akkshep]

Thank you SO much for this video! I spent the last few days in forum hell trying to get this working properly. Subbed.

[@TechnoTim]

Happy to help! Thanks for the sub!

[@alexzendermarunsai]

Thanks man. Just what I need to start my promox vm gaming journey. Subbed.

[@TechnoTim]

Thank you! More coming soon!

[@ThatNerdIndy]

Good video. But I recommend to do some things differently after I experimented around a bit: 1. BIOS Settings: SVM/VT-d and IOMMU/VT-x have to be enabled. Enable SR-IOV and ACS if you have those options. IMPORTANT: Before you install Proxmox at all "CSM" has to be disabled in the BIOS and "Above 4G Encoding" has to be enabled. If your VMs dont work with these setting reinstall proxmox completely! This fixed the stupid Code 43 for me! 2. 3:11 If you have an AMD CPU use amd_iommu=on instead of intel_iommu=on. This is neither pointed out in the video nor the documentation. Please fix that! 3. DONT CHANGE AN EXISTING VM! Install the VM as OVMF + q35 from the beginning. Don't change an existing VM into that. It causes the VM to not start. 4. If your VM refuses to start delete ALL IDE devices and replace them with SATA ones if neccesary. 5. You might need to add the GPU to the VFIO. To do this run 'lspci -v' and get the ID of the GPU and the HDMI audio device. Then run 'lspci -n -s ' for both the vga and audio device. This will give you the vendor IDs of the devices. These should look like that: '10de:10f0'. Then run 'echo "options vfio-pci ids=, disable_vga=1"> /etc/modprobe.d/vfio.conf'. After that run 'update-initramfs -u' 6. Don't use windows RDP for remote gaming. Use something hardware accelerated like Parsec. Steam and NVIDIA also have options for gamestreaming. Hope this helps.

[@TechnoTim]

Thanks for the tips!

[@KLisPoN]

HI, its work only for 1VM? I can create like 5VM with passtrough RX580 8GB? Or need special videocard like Tesla or Radeon PRO?

[@ThatNerdIndy]

@@KLisPoN only tested with 1 VM so far. I will test it with multiple ones when I get my threadripper system done!

[@ricardocaldeira8473]

Thanks for this Indy! Following the video instruction only would lead me to boot problems but with your help I've managed to get it done! Thank you for taking the time and comment those very useful instructions!

[@smealson1919]

Yesterday i used your tutorial successfully, thanks a lot for this. i tried a few tutorials on this case before but the only one that runs on my machine is yours. i wish you all the best and a great year !

[@murtza.rehman]

You have so beautifully given away such a wonderful setup and it all felt as easy as casually playing a Video Game. Amazed !

[@TheRealHiddenNinja]

Regarding Remote desktop, try looking at the following: Parsec (which is good, but the game must be running first) moonlight-stream (depends on the GPU, as it uses NVIDIA Shield) Other than that, loving the video! :)

[@flognort]

yes moonlight is so much better than rdp for game streaming

[@kylecurry2741]

Tim, you're the man! Nice tutorial, I haven't been a gamer since I was in my teens, but much has changed in the world of gaming, and my son's are now into the latest games, some of which I'm aspiring to run from PC exclusively and so given I'm big on backups, running the game from my PVE home server will be the premise here, this helps alot! BTW, I've rarely had to use the "q35" CPU option, but I have done this in PVE before with an OSX system :-)

[@johngrabner]

Wow, this would be so cool for deep learning. Deep learning has different environments that Gpu passthrough would be perfect for. Also instability causing crashes would be isolated to a vm

[@TechnoTim]

Exactly! Not only gaming! Anything that needs a GPU in a VM

[@daryelo1088]

THIS VIDEO SAVED ME IVE BEEN TRYING TO PASS THROUGH MY GTX 1050 AND IT NEVER COULD THE DRIVERS WOULD NEVER INSTALL I AM SO RELIEVED!

[@goteamgorilla]

Looks like I have another Proxmox "project" this weekend. Thanks Techno Tim!

[@hycron1234]

Thanks Tim, finally got my proxmox up and running with gpu passthrough. It really is a game-changer having a gpu on a virtual machine! 🙂

[@Prime_Tecnologia_Automacao]

I know the video is a little old, but still very current, and thanks to it, I was able to run an AMD Radeon Graphics Card in a Linux Lite virtualization on PROXMOX. As incredible as it may seem, I still haven't managed to work on virtualized Windows. But here's my thank you very much.

[@TechnoTim]

Glad I could help!

[@emiellr]

Hey Tim, small yet important remark: you mentioned you need vt-x for intel, but to use pci-e passthrough you also need vt-d. Without that you can still make a vm and it will work just fine, but you can't pass a gpu.

[@TechnoTim]

Agreed! I though I mentioned vt-d for IOMMU, thank you!

[@cataMailman]

@@TechnoTim So... I couldn't get it to work with your guide. When selecting the CPU it said "IOMMU not detected". My CPU definitely supports VT-x and VT-d but in the BIOS I could only find "Intel Virtualization Technology" which I turned on but no mention of VT-x or VT-d.

[@electrotsmishar]

@@cataMailman same here

[@umarsalmanrao5]

5.48K subs? I'm lucky to be one of the early subscribers because this channel is about to grow like crazy. Amazing videos and literally the only channel where I have the notification bell turned on.

[@TechnoTim]

Umar Rao thank you so much!

[@PoeLemic]

@@TechnoTim Yeah, you are gonna grow just like ChrisTitusTech did. I knew him in the "early days", before he started an ONSLAUGHT of new content -- which you will too.

[@DonWon4725]

Thank you very much for this insightful tutorial everything you mentioned worked out fantastic with some hick up nothing major, managed to pass the GPU which is AMD Radeon 5700XT graphics card this setup is amazing virtual machine is much faster than conventional computer running on native hardware. This tutorial is much better than any other one found keep up the great work looking forward to seeing more great tutorials.

[@Flexicute]

Glad i stumbled across this, over time i've found myself with too many computers and i'm looking to clean up my desk which has led me to wanting to have just one server for gaming, NAS, dockers etc. Good tutorial, i'll be looking to try this soon

[@lmaoroflcopter]

I think if you use a low latency "meant for game streaming" method of connectivity like parsec the latency you're seeing will be dramatically reduced. A lot of that is probably the overheads in RDP. This is a sweet guide though. Looking to use this for some spare hardware I've got here.

[@TechnoTim]

For sure! RDP was just a proof of work to make sure that my video card was actually being used!

[@marsmonster3947]

I like that you use star systems for your names. I always do the same thing!

[@milenkostadinov8702]

Hey Tim, I really liked the simplicity of your video explanation. I would allow myself to suggest a trick - if you add your GPU as a secondary GPU device and not make it primary (emulate the case with most laptops these days where there is a crappy Intel 3-4-6-000 and some better Nvidia M-class GPU). So having done that would allow you to connect to the game directly from the console (in case you need to maintain it) as I know sometimes RDP can play tricks on you and you would have to revert the changes, fix the issue and then reset back again. I know some people used some local game streamer where you see all your games listed (sort of like it is done on Steam) and then you just click Play and you go with a much better streaming of the actual FPS than it is done over RDP which has some security protocols to monitor the connection and could lagg a bit on FPS (as you've stated it). For sure, raising the bar with something more powerful these days (like RTX 2060/70/80 or even 30XX) as well as switching from 100 to 1000 or from 1000 to 2500Gbps would allow better FPS even over the simple RDP but that might require Hardware investment to some extent...

[@boxedowl]

Thank you for taking the time to upload this.

[@TechnoTim]

Glad it was helpful!

[@qxzapmileamihai8074]

Bruh this is nuts. Soon i will buy a server for home lab and my girlfriend has a laptop with a 920m and a desire to play newer games. I will consider his whole tutorial when i will install a 1060 or something in that server.

[@TechnoTim]

Sounds like a fun project!

[@carolineletaconoux3568]

Hi @Techno Tim and thank you for your amazing videos! I just bought a nice laptop (for video editing purposes mostly) and my former gaming PC is now sitting sadly in a corner. It's still pretty decent and I'd like to put it to good use, I'm trying to figure out the best way to do so. I'm totally new to VMs and NAS so I'd like to have your opinion! My main concern is to reuse all the drives for additional storage, so at first I figured I'd use TrueNAS. Plugins such as Plex Media Server and Nextcloud would be useful to me, I'd love to be able to access my files when away from home. But (if I understood correctly), that would leave the GPU unused, while it could be used for remote video encoding using proxmox and a W10 VM as described in this video. I also like the idea of running games from the PC and keeping the laptop strictly professional. Can I run a W10 VM and FreeNAS simultaneously from that machine? Is there a smarter way to fulfill my needs? How would you set this up? Thanks for your kind help! The PC's config: Case : Cooler Master Silencio Power : Cooler Master GX 550W MB : MSI Z87-G45 Gaming RAM : 16 Go (2 x G.Skill 4 Go PC 12800 Sniper CAS 9 + 2x G.Skill Extreme3 Ripjaws X DDR3 4 Go 1600 MHz CAS 9) CPU : Intel Core i5 4670K GPU : Asus GeForce GTX 1060 Dual - 6 Go SSD 1: 120 Go - Samsung Serie 840 EVO (previously used for OS) SSD 2 : 500 Go - Samsung Serie 750 EVO (previously used to install games and programs) HDD 1 : 1 To - WD Blue Caviar 3,5" - SATA III 6 Gb/s - 64 Mo cache (previously used for system backups) HDD 2 : 1 To - Samsung SpinPoint F1 HD103UJ 3,5" - SATA II 3Gb/s - 32 Mo cache (previously used for data storage) The new laptop is the MSI Prestige 15 A10SC-291

[@TechnoTim]

Yeah, totally. If you are going to run VMs, just put them on an SSD and you'll be fine. The more RAM the better.

[@savsnode2811]

I like that couch in the background

[@shaundupreez4233]

Thanks man, I also struggled with the passthrough - Subbed

[@TechnoTim]

Glad it helped!

[@tekore7941]

Great video! You should look into nomachineNX for the windows vm instead of RDP, it will make the gaming experience much smoother and responsive

[@JQMaster17]

for me it was best to use parsec for gaming

[@majorgear1021]

or UltraVNC!

[@Solar_and_Security]

Hi Tim! Just found your channel last week, and been binge watching your content. AWESOME content! Thanks!

[@TechnoTim]

Jason Hensley thank you!

[@feo786]

Underrated channel!

[@TechnoTim]

Thank you!

[@majorgear1021]

“You may have an extra GPU laying around” In what universe does someone have an extra GPU laying around? GPU’s are about impossible to get. Otherwise, it was a really helpful video. thank you for making it!

[@TechnoTim]

I have 2 extra old ones :). I tend to not sell my previous card when upgrading :)

[@majorgear1021]

@@TechnoTim You are sitting on a gold mine! Well, unless we’re talking older cards like a Nvidia TNT/TNT2 card.

[@bradmccormack100]

Also, when I did this (I used KVM and virt manager) I also set up Grub to have a separate entry for the passthrough so it didn't always happen. At the time I didn't have a home lab so I wanted to be able for the host to claim the second GPU. If I didn't (blacklisted GPU) the the host driver wouldn't handle the fans and it would be louder than necessary even though I wasn't using the Windows VM. I'll certainly be trying this remotely. Your presentation style is awesome. You are presenting fairly complicated technology in a user friendly manner. Props!

[@TechnoTim]

Thank you for the feedback! Glad you are enjoying it! I am working on my delivery, glad you find it helpful!

[@Supperconductor]

I use linux for dev work and only occasionally game in windows so this is a perfect solution for me. Thanks!

[@TechnoTim]

Glad it helped!

[@sfsfsdfsdification]

Great tutorial! Followed this to setup HP Z820 Proxmox PCI Passthrough Radeon 570 RX. He's using UEFI Motherboard, if you dont have it use SeaBios.

[@tommybronze3451]

Nice. This is something I was actually considering to do on my main rig. During my development I have to run multiple VM's, and recently started moving those more into lxc environment ... unfortunately on ubuntu lxc still is in shape of "fun tool to play around with", and you have to jump through hoops to get a decent container running full ubuntu under virt-manager. For that reason I started considering running proxmox as a base os on my dev machine, and having ubuntu as a vm, and all the dev stuff as lxc containers. I know that is sounds as an overkill, but I could then shift containers between my machinve and build server, I could have a load balancing, I could even use a laptop and remotely connect to those containers and get stuff if I'm out and about. a bit of a pipe dream, but hey "Necessity is the mother of invention" ... Proxmox using ubuntu as a base, rather than just debian would solve so many problems ... damn shame, that they don't do it ;(

[@Haze-eh3vy]

How about running an Ubuntu VM inside Proxmox as your main rig and attaching a monitor and peripherals to it? Best of both worlds right :)

[@tommybronze3451]

@@Haze-eh3vy Actually, I've fully implemented my "pipe dream" of having everything under proxmox, and TBH the debian isn't that bad, there are few things missing but those are really minor things that can be obtained via external ppa. Ofcourse a bit of ubuntu "linux for the masses" polish is missing from the UI, but on the other hand it doesn't collide with some third party stuff that one might want. Over the past months I've swayed two customers to shift to that bizzare setup and they don't look back either. Few ui simplifications don't compensate for ease of vm/lxc management for them either.

[@ThomasSwinney]

Thank you so much for this guide. After only a couple failed attempts I was able to get it going. Not sure why but after the first boot somewhere a couple minutes after it locked up and I couldn't get it going again until I found the following commands. Again thanks so much. I learned alot about proxmox from your videos. 1. qm shutdown (you may get some errors about a lock which means you will want to try the below.) 2. cd into /var/lock/qemu-server and see if you have a lock-.conf if you do go ahead and rm -rf lock-.conf 3. ps aux | grep "/usr/bin/kvm -id " 4. kill -9

[@TechnoTim]

Thank you so much! Congrats!

[@RizalBoon]

Oh nice. If I combine this tutorial and using Parsec, I might be able to create a nice remote gaming experience.

[@TechnoTim]

For sure!

[@machinainc5812]

Man, i think i’m gonna download your vids just in case you disappear 😁 I wanna so much of what you teach

[@TechnoTim]

Hopefully my videos don't disappear... or me....

[@camerontgore]

I know that a lot of "tech KZbinrs" also back their videos up to LBRY or other FOSS video streaming alternatives

[@camerontgore]

If you do want to back up your videos to another platform, a lot of "Tech KZbinrs" are using LBRY or other FOSS youtube alternatives so that if the platform ever goes away they can still be up somewhere else.

[@despacitoyee1553]

Love the tutorials, saved a few headaches! Quick question though, can you pass through the same gpu to multiple VMs as long as only one is in use? I understand you can't do so with multiple running machines. This is for a home PC as an alternative to dual/triple/quad booting, for Win XP, Win 10, MacOS, and Linux. I only ever intend to use one at a time, similar to a bare metal install.

[@TechnoTim]

Yes! Just shut the other one down! Thank you!

[@despacitoyee1553]

Thank you so much for the reply, it worked flawlessly👍 Now just gotta figure out a few distro specific hiccups and I'm set 😊

[@chrisbowie1438]

So in theory you could connect an actual display to the gpu and see what the vm is doing. Probably use auto login and disable screensaver, or pass a kb and mouse too. Very cool

[@TechnoTim]

You could, yes! Thank you!

[@TazzSmk]

nVidia + Moonlight is probably best high-performance remote desktop to use, NDI (Tools) probably best way to handle LAN/server-based (live)stream encoding

[@DamjanKumin]

Very nice Tim! Plex trans is for me - tho I may install another one for Gaming ;D

[@AMian-yf2hn]

You should be at 1m subs by year end! Questions: 1. With 1 video card on server, is it possible to have a few clients playing mpg with rdp/Parsec/moonlight (nvidia)? Or each client requires its own video card on each VM? 2. Can we use Android TV boxes as clients? A comment below made such a reference (Durk Potgeiter.)

[@TechnoTim]

haha, wouldn't that be nice? You need one card per VM with consumer cards like mine.

[@mrcaf2824]

Great video sir. This will be a definite next project of mine.

[@tinkerfu7350]

Man, this is really interesting what you showed in this video. Thank, it is really informativ

[@TechnoTim]

Glad it helped

[@hcgul06]

You are a living legend man thank you so much!

[@TechnoTim]

Any time!

[@3aiban]

Subscribed 👍🏼 I like how this man explain things

[@TechnoTim]

Awesome, thank you!

[@mikewilsher1005]

Great video - I run a plex server and a video surveillance server via prox and both needed pass through capabilities, I need to buy another video card though and I'll be set.

[@belalsalas7266]

Hi Tim, Thanks for this amazing video. Does reverting all the changes allow the host to use the GPU gain? or there are some other things to consider? I am asking because I will try now on one GPU but eventually I will buy more powerful one. Thanks again

[@OARomanov]

This is awesome! Thanks a lot for this!

[@aoikuroyuri6536]

You should make an updated guide for this and add in either moonlight or parsec for those who don't know what those are :D

[@disnaess]

Hi, 2 questions: 1. Can I use 1 monitor for the host + gaming VM ? Host via HDMI input, VM's dedicated GPU via physical DisplayPort, so I just switch inputs on the monitor if I'm finished with gaming in the VM. 2. Why do I need a dummy ? Lots of VGAs work without monitor attached at all. Or do I need the dummy if I want to access the VM via RDP ? 3. What kind of VGA is recommended for the host itself ? Will a Radeon something work while I disable nVidia drivers (blacklist) ? Or can I have nVidia card on the host while passing through the second, beefier GPU to the VM ? (Real question is: can I use a GF710 for the host and a 1080Ti for passthrough, or better swap the GF710 to some Radeon card ? Many thanks !!!!

[@kelvin-milach9175]

Thanks Tim, that was an awesome tutorial! You got a new subscriber here Btw, does this tutorial work with the new 6.2 Proxmox VE? I've not started setting up VE but I'd probably use the newer version. Do you have any suggestions to lower the dropped frames? With a good video card, I'd try playing some beefy games but I dunno if that'd be viable, even with a ethernet connection. Love your content man, keep it up!

[@TechnoTim]

Yes it does! I am running 6.2 as of now! If you are truly going to game with this system, try looking at something like Parsec or something more optimized for games rather than RDP. Thank you!

[@xxcr4ckzzxx840]

Maybe Try Rainway. In my Opinion it works just a bit better and you have easy Remote Desktop too. Playing from Outside your network is easy too :)

[@bruceallen6492]

Hi Tim, I'm working through your video above and did work through your previous video for Win 10 on Proxmox. No joy as yet with pass-through. I'm using Proxmox 7.1 on a Lenovo server that has Vt-x and Vt-d turned on in the BIOS. I think my biggest unknown is my TITAN card. Does TITAN support GPU passthrough or do I need a newer card like the 1050s you reference. Thanks for your great videos. One of my uses for Proxmox is to run Linux VM with GPU passthrough so LAMMPS software can make use of the GPU and I can also do some Win 10 GPU software development too. I think a big part of the problem is once I convert to q35, OVMF,UEFI, etc my VM can't find the boot disk.

[@bruceallen6492]

i found that I must create the virtual machine using OVMF, q35, UEFI from the beginning, and uncheck the box in UEFI about keys. I did your proxmox changes first and created the VM second. I did the switch to host for the processors last. I still need to get games playing, but I do see the GPU is working with task manager.

[@tbhinteractieve]

Got it running too now! I use parsec for the 60fps gaming. It's 10/10 better tham rdp

[@twinluis07]

Epic. Cyberpunk isn't working through the Steam remote play, and i'm away from my main computer. Looks like a challenge but I'm gonna give this a try. Thank you !

[@TechnoTim]

Let me know how Cyberpunk works out!

[@vfxfan9589]

Wow that good, we wait for a second part... expanding the uses of the GPU. Can macOS be used too? obviously using an AMD Radeon? Great job, please look forward to more of these great GPU Passthrough tutorials...

[@TechnoTim]

Thank you! I don't see why any other operating system wouldn't work. The OS should think it's running on real hardware.

[@vincenzogiusto3328]

Very nice and informative video. I'm also planning to make a VM to play some easy games but since I have a Ryzen 5 1600 AF on my server I will need a dedicated GPU to do this. I'm pretty new to virtualization etc. How many cores would you suggest me to assign to the VM?

[@TechnoTim]

I usually go with 8 per vm, but really 4 or so should be enough depend on your workloads

[@johncnorris]

I didn't see any other comments about the cut & paste issue in the grub file: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="intel_iommu=on iommu=pt pcie_acs_override=downstream,multifunction video=efifb:off" It's the last field that needs to be corrected. [ NOT video=efifb:eek:ff ]

[@vincenthu-by5oh]

I found i can't start my vm after i changed the vm 's BIOS to OVMF(UEFI) and Machine to q35, and i tryed to remove the CD/DVD drive that contains virtio image iso,it could be started, but it didn't configure its network automatically

[@bassplaya69er]

You cant just change an exisitng VM from bios to efi afaik. Have to reinstall

[@ofernandofilo]

you rocks! cheers from Brazil!!!!

[@borfogyasztoelsoszamu2493]

Nagyon köszönöm, remek bemutató

[@banishedmonk]

At @3:11 you mentioned command lines in the description, im not seeing it. Are they relocated

[@TechnoTim]

Everything is in the docs! docs.technotim.live/posts/gpu-passthrough/

[@tonykrajcik6701]

It was advanced level for me at the moment. But great video about potential of Proxmox for my future using. What hardware do you use as server? Can you specify parameters? Thank you.

[@TechnoTim]

Glad you liked it! I have an old Dell Server (R710) and a PC that I built and turned into a server. I have some links in the description for compatible hardware!

[@Tanax13]

Really amazing tutorial! Great work! Question; Is it possible to pass through multiple GPUs to the same VM? Say I want to virtualize a mining rig with 6 GPUs, would that be feasible? Or would I lose a lot of performance?

[@TechnoTim]

Thank you!

[@chrisstigas7534]

Thanks for the video Tim. What is the video hex code in your grub file? Is this specific to your video card?

[@C0LPAN1C]

Best is parsec vs RDP. You can tell if hardware encoding is used vs software. Shows visual cue upper left corner!

[@martinscurlock2082]

Every time I do this walkthrough my guest agent turns off and I have no clue how to turn it back on. I have went through the tutorial about 10 different times as well. Guest agent and remote desktop work before I add the hardware.

[@martinscurlock2082]

After some testing I have singled out the guest agent failure to when the hardware section is changed. Reverted hardware and everything worked. Switched it to what you recommended and guest agent broke again. Still not sure what to so.

[@martinscurlock2082]

Figured it out. Nvidia has not made this available for RTX 3000 cards yet.

[@southofgrace]

Awesome video Tim. Easy to follow for me even though I'm not an IT guy. I just want to set up a server and actually use it instead of tinkering! Question for you, you mentioned that the gpu is dedicated to just a single VM. Is there a way to passthrough to multiple VMs that won't be running simultaneously? I would like to have a couple VMs to run CAD software on one, media editors on another. I don't want them all on a single machine. Keep the proxmox series coming. You rock

[@TechnoTim]

You can use the same video card for multiple machines but you can’t have them booted at the same time. You would have to shut the other down when not in use. Otherwise you would have to look at something like a Quadro card.

[@southofgrace]

@@TechnoTim That's totally fine with me. I will see how much of a pain it is to shut down and boot VMs as I dont have anything set up yet. But I won't be switching from one to another that often. I have a Poweredge T710 and a Quadro P620 gpu is what I'm going to try. From what I understand the power through pci is only like 25 watts so Im hoping it works. Thank you for taking the time to help!

[@lelandclayton5462]

Last year I did something a bit different. I slapped in a USB card into my main Desktop running Debian with a little program called EasySeats and used four HP Multiseat T150 clients and four USB over Ethernet Adapters and since all of the TVs I have in the House had VGA I was able to have four VM clients running Windows 7. Able to stream Netflix just fine and attend to have retro LAN parties with the Kids playing some old school FPS games such as DOOM2 and Quake (using software rendering).

[@TechnoTim]

thanks for sharing!

[@emu5581]

Have you tried other remote desktop programs that are (more) dedicated to lower latency like Parsec or Moonlight?

[@CesarPetrescu]

Should work

[@CesarPetrescu]

I want to do moonlight

[@caseywinters3021]

I was thinking the same thing

[@Shambolicoholic]

Tim, you magnificent bastard :) .... I can't believe I finally got this working with the your help. GT1030 successfully passed through to Windows 10 host. I was close but it just never worked (the dreaded error 43)... I was missing the additional grub flags and blacklisting those 4 drivers (I only had the first one). I hooked it up to my TV but was afraid that there would be no sound because I didn't passthrough the Nvidia audio device but it totally works and I have sound too! You're the man, Tim. Keep up the great work!

[@TechnoTim]

comrade7 heck yes! Great success!

[@dbordieri]

Hey, great video. Am looking to build a rig and shopping GPUs and was wondering if you thought a mining GPU could serve this purpose since the cards can be had inexpensively at the moment. Thanks.

[@marcosoliveira8731]

Man! Another amazing video of yours! Have you notice if were any issues controlling the GPU´s temperature so far?

[@TechnoTim]

Thanks! None that I've noticed, just like in a desktop!

[@marcosoliveira8731]

@@TechnoTim Thank you very much to find time to answer.

[@sesshoumarusama7397]

Very helpful, but there was a catch for me. I am booting Proxmox from ZFS pool as primary drive(s). This means that systemd is used as bootloader. To get IOMMU activated I had to do the changes you proposed at /etc/kernel/cmdline and then run pve-efiboot-tool refresh (and reboot).

[@nandurx]

How you did it? Because I am seeing this line: root=ZFS=rpool/ROOT/pve-1 boot=zfs

[@jjjuhl]

Subbed! This is excellent! I wanted this for so long. Noisy machine in one room, Gaming/streaming pc whereever

[@TechnoTim]

Thank you! Nope, 10Gb not required!

[@vladbel1442]

@@TechnoTim Great video, thank you! Just to get some reference point... what lan speed did you use when recording this? was it 10 or 1 gig?

[@GlenBland]

This is awesome, thanks for sharing! Now I'm curious about how to pass a controller to it.

[@TechnoTim]

USB passthrough works too

[@slikdude12592]

This is great, I wonder how well the remote performance would be with something like Moonlight/Gamestream instead of RDP. I game that way with Windows now on bare metal but given the instability of Windows it would be great to be able to virtualize (and have another VM to be a Windows SMB server to avoid crashes/BSODs that can happen when gaming). Thanks for the video

[@TechnoTim]

Works great with Moonlight and Gamestream!

[@fmj_556]

Can't wait to try this!!!

[@TechnoTim]

Hope you like it!

[@frithfly]

Techno Tim thank you for this thoughtful guide. I had a question as I am starting to build a server. My Xeon doesn't have a built-in display and my board has room for 2 GPUs. Can i passthrough both GPUs to 2 VMs or does proxmox require a dedicated GPU for itself and therefore I can only have 1 GPU for VM passthrough?

[@SergheiPantelei]

Nice video Tim. Will that way work still ok if one machine is setup as NAS/Server & Working station. I'm running already Proxmox and FreeNAS and have Windows 10 in a separate VM. Can connected monitor display Windows 10 VM video and have keyb & mouse connected to this VM, so when sitting in front of this station it will act as day to day windows 10 machine but run in parallel NAS and server?

[@TechnoTim]

Hi there! I think this is possible! I'd love to build a machine like this and make a video on it however I don't have the hardware to do so :(

[@KTSpeedruns]

Here's some quirks. For some reason, part way through setting it up, my Jellyfin container stopped being able to boot. It's supposed to be able to use the iGPU. Also, when I add a PCIe device to passthrough to the windows VM, it stops being able to boot. I've followed no less than 3 different guides. This is frustrating beyond belief.

[@whovisionsCGI]

You need to check more than your cpu for gpu passthrough. Bios has to have the option of VT-d and VT I/O as well as compatible chipset and even then a lot of nvidia gpu's don't work.

[@TechnoTim]

I thought I mentioned both the CPU and Motherboard must support VT-d / IOMMU. Thnaks!

[@whovisionsCGI]

@@TechnoTim Apologies, I've been watching so many videos on this subject I guess I missed that. 😵‍💫

[@andrewtruett8590]

Hi Tim, I know this is an old video but I had a quick question. What is the benefit of doing this as opposed to just building a gaming PC and remote desktop-ing into that machine from somewhere else in your house?

[@MegaManNeo]

Interesting to see Proxmox being used, I got into gpu-passthrough few days back on my B450, 2700X, RX580, RX5700, 32GB rig and it works great with openSUSE Tumbleweed being my host and Windows10 actually running off the NVMe it is natively installed onto, so I could still use it without Linux in the background. Speaking of Linux, do you know what I'd do if I plan to repurpose my computer as a server and potentially a beefier CPU, so I can too connect to my Linux desktop remotely? I'm asking because I fear I couldn't login remotely once the VM reaches the login screen on my distribution of choice.

[@troysims1119]

Great video Tim! I'm subscribed now. I've devoured a bunch of your other vids now too. Good stuff, great presentation and intelligent instruction. Now my question. Have you had any experience with unraid? That's currently my plex server, file server, vm hypervisor. I'll have to upgrade mobo to be able to get passthrough but wasn't sure what your take is on unraid. Thanks for the content!!

[@TechnoTim]

Awesome, thank you!

[@TheWeava]

I don't know if I'm incorrect here, but I've heard that steam link has huge delays on it's own and lots of choppiness as you pointed out in your video as to why they were giving it away on $10 sales. Good idea, good tutorial, I was wondering doesn't NDI accomplish what you're doing here. If you're running NDI you're duplicating what is on your gaming pc over your network for stream without even going live on the gaming pc? Lastly, isn't this basically against the 24 hour exclusive contracts signed when you become affiliated with twitch? Keep the videos coming.

[@TechnoTim]

Great questions! Steam Link (the actual device) is awesome! I never had any lag issues and it plays better than the Apple TV app and the Samsung app (that's built into Samsung TVs now). NDI can accomplish what you mention however I have 2 virtual machines with 2 video cards both running OBS 24/7. I don't need to stream my encoded stream over the network, I just need GPUs to encode each stream. You're right about the 24 hour exclusivity however I don't stream myself on these streams, I stream something else and each stream is unique content and unique to each platform. The only reason I edited myself into the B-Roll was because I didn't have the rights to the content, at least on KZbin. So, long story short it's not my live stream that I am sending to Twitch and Mixer, it's actually a 24/7 bot that streams to both platforms. Thank you for asking and thanks for commenting!

[@EduardoSantanaSeverino]

Hello @Techno Tim, thanks for the video, it was so enjoyable to watch it and get how easy it is to Passthrough a GPU using proxmox. Do you mind doing some post or video in addition to this video which aims proxmox latest update 6.2?

[@TechnoTim]

Hi! The process is exactly the same! Thank you!

[@Redicat]

DUDE! YOU are awesome man! you helped me a fuck ton! it works!!! even for AMD!! man if it works for AMD too and you use NVIDIA ur a legend man it works for Radeon too which it usually isn't the case if tutorial is used with an nvidia card not amd! thanks!!

[@cleansermacaroni9892]

I thought this was Johnny Depp doing a proxmox tutorial. LANy Depp.

[@Sean-AnthonyEscoffery]

Hey Tim, Has anyone every determined how to passthrough the igpu on an amd chip. I have a mini PC setup with proxmox 8.2.2. It has a Ryzen 7 5700U with radeon graphics. But attempting to pass the radeon graphics through doesn't seem to work with the steps.

[@PowerOfDeathZ]

Hi Tim, just curious do you think remote gaming for Torch Light would still be possible with overlays (VPN) where your laptop or low-spec device isn't directly connected? Or would it lag too much to even play?

[@OlafI]

1st: Great content!! 2nd: Are you playing the game via a RDP Session??

[@OlafI]

Nevermind, I was not patient enough :D Question has been answered by the end of the video.

[@TechnoTim]

:)

[@ittos90]

Parsec or NVidia's moonlight are good purpose built alternatives to RDP. I don't have a gaming VM but I have my gaming PC in my cold garage (Gotta get AC in there before summer!) and I use a mini-pc to game on it remotely.

[@MEATHEADBooYA]

How does this compare to VMware for gaming on? I am wanting to run one PC with two GPU's. But not sure if the fps would be as good as VMware GPU Passthrough.

[@TechnoTim]

Not sure! I don't want to afford the license for VMWare to use more than 8 cores, and 1 CPU, and I don't want to use a RAID adapter. I am sure Proxmox would handle this fine.

[@Nimitz_oceo]

Hi Tim, I am longtime subscriber and a great fan of your work. This is exactly the type of video I have been looking for: Here is my question: I have a lenovo Thinkpad P51 4K with a Xeon E3-1505M, 64GB RAM with an Nvidia M2200, this is a quadro series card. I have been running VMware workstation pro on it but i apparently I can't do a Gpu passthrough on workstation.(Vmware reserved that right for Vsphere customers) I was wondering if I installed proxmox on it, I'm just wondering if my laptop configuration will work for this type of setup, especially passing multiple vm to a single GPU.