{"id":547,"date":"2017-10-27T09:31:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T09:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/?p=547"},"modified":"2017-10-27T09:31:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T09:31:25","slug":"multi-seat-gaming-pc-for-lans-part-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/2017\/10\/27\/multi-seat-gaming-pc-for-lans-part-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi Seat Gaming PC for LANs Part 0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Background<\/h1>\n<p>A couple of years ago I mucked around with something called PCI-E passthrough.<br \/>\nThe idea is to let a Virtual Machine (VM) use an physical GPU.<br \/>\nThis lets me, who almost exclusively run Linux, run some Windows only games in a Windows VM. I think I was first exposed to this idea through a reddit post on r\/linux_gaming, possibly this one:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-card\" ><p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/linux_gaming\/comments\/2z2y7h\/gpu_passthrough_or_how_to_play_any_game_at_near\/?ref_source=embed&amp;ref=share\">GPU Passthrough &#8211; Or How To Play Any Game At Near Native Performance In A Virtual Machine (xpost \/r\/pcmasterrace)<\/a> from      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/linux_gaming\/\">linux_gaming<\/a>    <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.redditmedia.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Thing is, that guide was really only a jumping off point into an endless sea of configuration and testing, and eventual success. But it was really only a toy for me, to see if I could.<\/p>\n<p>The secondary GPU was an AMD 4850HD, which was pretty elderly, and I wasn&#8217;t going to be able to use it for everything I wanted. After the initial success, I shelved the project.<\/p>\n<h1>And then&#8230;<\/h1>\n<p>A few months ago, Matt came to me with a suggestion that we attempt to follow this procedure:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LuJYMCbIbPk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We both attend the Skynet Wales LAN , and he thought it&#8217;d be cool to be able to do all our gaming from a single rig instead of both of us having to take our entire setups.<\/p>\n<h2>NO, THIS CANNOT BE<\/h2>\n<p>The unRAID solution, on paper, looked like the easiest way to do this, but two things made me disagree<br \/>\n1. I had already set up something similar a while back<br \/>\n2. Why do it the easy way when yo can do it the hard way.<\/p>\n<p>Later on it turned out I made the correct call here for a couple of reasons. I&#8217;ll go into why later on.<\/p>\n<p>The next few posts will go through the Hardware we used, the software \/ VM setup, the various tweaks we&#8217;ve applied, and some benchmarking results. Then finally how it performed in a real world event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background A couple of years ago I mucked around with something called PCI-E passthrough. The idea is to let a Virtual Machine (VM) use an physical GPU. This lets me, who almost exclusively run Linux, run some Windows only games in a Windows VM. I think I was first exposed&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/2017\/10\/27\/multi-seat-gaming-pc-for-lans-part-0\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,4,29],"tags":[84,83,81,82,80,85],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.daft-ideas.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}