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Self hosted NAS + Lightweight Game Streaming Solution? (lemmy.world)
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I have an aging gaming desktop with a GTX 970 that I've previously used to let friends/family stream games. My area has a lot of fiber so it's surprisingly usable, even got VR working. Problem is, I'd prefer to use it as a NAS most the time as it has plenty of drive bays and I need somewhere better to run jellyfin than my desktop.

I'm somewhat aware of the options as I've used various hypervisors etc before, but I also want something as simple as possible. Because of that, I'm looking at TrueNAS. I'm aware my point of difficulty is gonna be the GPU. Is there any easy way to use it for a gaming VM at times and jellyfin encode others? If there's not some nifty feature in Proxmox or TrueNAS to solve my problem, how dumb would running a linux VM with both the games and Jellyfin be?

Forgive me if this is a more generic question than I realize. I'd be plenty happy to be pointed to some existing resources.

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[-] n3m@lemmy.electrospek.com 1 points 8 months ago

You could possibly also use proxmox and setup a VM for docker, games (use GPU passthrough), and TrueNAS. You also combine docker and games to same VM to use GPU for jellyfin. Only thing is I'm not quite sure how well your games will play (guess it depends on what games). Also keep in mind TrueNAS requires alot of memory (RAM). If you don't have enough for your games and TrueNAS you may have some performance issues.

You could also try running everything from within TrueNAS but personally I'm not a fan of it. I haven't tried TrueNAS scale yet but it does look promising.

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