Comment on Getting the mutant home server gaming in a VM (Proxmox as a Home Server)
ChojinDSL@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
Am I missing something here? Why use a VM for gaming?
I’ll take Linux with proton any day over all that faffing with windows and a GPU pass through.
kn100@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
You are - this is a server - it hosts approximately 20 LXC containers beside a couple of VMs. One of the VMs hosts Windows - and gets a GPU and a couple of USB ports. Another VM hosts Linux, which in turn runs Home Assistant, and gets a USB port so that it can use my Zigbee dongle, etc.
I could feasibly use a Linux VM instead, but I’d have to do the same VM passthrough chicanery - and the way I have this set up right now means that I do not treat the gaming workload as anything special, it’s just another VM. I can snapshot it, move it between storage devices, share hardware between it and other VMs, and so on.
ChojinDSL@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
I usually shy away from VMs because I have to dedicate a fixed amount of resources, e.g. ram.
I tend to rely on docker or bare metal services on a server. But I don’t use a server for gaming.