Production value, I love the soundtracks.

2014

It's 2024 my dude

Me too!!

Thanks!

nice video. but would it not be much easier to install windows directly on that dell server, and install a hypervisor on that windows and install your linux boxes on that virtual machine ? so all your geforce and accerlation stuff would be directly on your hardware, instead of passthroughing all of that graphics. you would have much less overhead and ´configuring shiat to do. 😁😁

Definitely easier for the install, @@mal-avcisi9783... But, very much harder to keep on top of for security. Always best to virtualize the most vulnerable OS whenever possible, followed by whatever OS you "daily drive" the most... So, windows gaming hits both of those targets dead center, and pretty much is ideal for virtualization. Also handy to be able to snapshot a windows VM in case windows update decides to kill it, versus having an unexpected background update kill the whole machine.

​@@mal-avcisi9783But how would you be able to do cloud gaming then ? Sharing the windows desktop with GPU possibilities is the only purpose of this video. The step above would be to share the gpu among multiple VDI ^^

Good to hear

@@HardwareHaven Blur top right at 36:49 your parsec account info

@@gamesbtl6730 Thanks!

Thanks for the comment, and same!

Thanks!

Keep a look out for good deals! You never know what old stuff might pop up

That's great

Thanks!

i would install the wireguard client on your computer so not just your browser goes through the VPN

Glad I could help

Yep!

Dynamic dns is free. don't need a domain for that.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ea2nZ66UmZiYhnk.html Create a Reverse Proxy for self hosted services using Netmaker and Wireguard! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mbViYMqClZ-ummQ.html Pi-Hosted : Novaspirit Tech

To be clear, I never said I prefer Jellyfin over Plex. Just using one doesn’t imply a preference. But a lot of people don’t like that Plex requires a paid plan to use hardware transcoding.

@@HardwareHaven actually, my Synology NAS doesn't have hardware encoding and didn't even know Plex did not provide this option in base build without subscription. Thanks for the heads up, getting me motivated to build my own NAS, and keep up the great work!

@@DigitalCircus777 Thanks! Best of luck with any future NAS endeavors haha

Possibly!

If you back things up properly it not too hard to restore everything

cluster of 2 with redundancy will solve this

Yeah, proxmox doesn't' really work with WiFi

Woo!!

Yes you can, but will also need to pass thru USB for peripherals. The reason people use something like parsec is because the whole purpose of making it a VM is that you can access it remotely

A: It's also being used to transcode for jellyfin. B: The server isn't just for gaming. C: The gtx1650 is definitely not a card with high power consumption If something like this doesn't make sense for you, that's totally fine! It doesn't mean it doesn't make sense for others.

GPU pass thru

I would probably just look at setting up TrueNAS bare metal at that point if it were me

@HardwareHaven Thanks for the reply! Basically the scenario is that I've already got a really solid gaming build with a R7-3800x, RTX 3080 10GB, and 32GB RAM but a really old Netgear 2Bay NAS that doesnt have good enough specs to transcode and I'd like to be able to add more physical drives too. I've been looking into building up a home server to replace the NAS and add Wireguard functionality but the setups ive been happy with on paper have all been running $400-$500 to build up before the high capacity drives i wanna get. Ive been searching for the past couple months locally but cant get any good deals to bring down the pricing :/ After watching these 2 videos I was rethinking the setup to just run it all on the system I already have and just add a second cheap GPU just to have that transcoding for Jellyfin and then the VPN would be a perk too, but you're saying to just build up a bare metal system for the server still? Or do you mean run the system with TrueNAS on bare metal as the main boot and add VMs for Windows and Prox?

@@HardwareHaven sorry it's so long winded

@@IFaTaLGeaRx no worries! I would build your TrueNAS machine on bare metal if possible, as it doesn’t seem you need a ton of VMs. If you’re only needing a couple drive bays, look for something like an hp elite or pro desk 800 g3. The 6th7th gen CPU could probably handle transcoding for you using quick sync, or you could add a GPU if it’s not enough. You can find those desktops with two drive bays for less than $100 on ebay

Not that I’m aware of.. you can do something similar by using one PC to access all of them remotely though using VNC, parsec, etc…

same as docker

Hmmm not really sure. You might hit up some forums and such

@@HardwareHaven tried searching the forum, they say attatch the audio device, although i tried attatching the audio device, nothing seem to work. and all the tutorials i have seen all of them has this audio red cross in it

it should work as long as you don't expect to game on it, as the power usage on these might make it a costly affair depending on the games you want to run.

Not quite… Just a windows VM in proxmox

@@HardwareHaven So, how can I do quite the same thing? What I mean is, I have an "old" pc unused, with an 9900K and a 1650 and a 2080ti, I tryied to make a nas with truenas scale, and a "gaming vm" but is seems after that parsec cannot connect (my first idea is to make a little server, a gaming vm, and a little nas) if I still need to do that a have to do a similar thing? idk im just through an idea

@@OuDayas If you want to go the route I did, you can install proxmox onto the system, and then create a VM for your NAS and a VM for your gaming PC. I covered the NAS part in the first of these two videos, and covered setting up a windows VM with GPU pass-thru in this one. Hope that answers your question!

@@HardwareHaven It seems i finally done, but after I created a windows 10 vm, it give me another screen, thats odd but at least it work

Depends on priorities I guess! If windows is your main priority then that probably does make the most sense. If the Linux machines are a bit more important, it’s probably worth having a dedicated hypervisor so a bad windows update doesn’t brick your whole setup. And this whole 2 part series is more of a prod of concept than a practical setup

OH..... Saw a similar comment, GPU passthrough.... That makes sense.

GPU can be passed through to Docker and its containers as well. It's a bit more work but the advantage is ease of updating Jellyfin/Emby or Plex within Docker.

@@diedrichg but you can't pass it through the doctor and windows at the same time?

@@TheGodOfAllThatWas ohh! I don't know, I hadn't thought about that. I haven't used Proxmox. According to Craft Computing's video, it's possible with a vGPU.

Yeah I removed the domain before uploding

Nope

How’d you guess???