My 2023 Homelab Setup

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Very nice, I have a similar setup but I use parsec to remote in to my gaming VM that has GPU passthrough. One interesting thing I noticed was if I wanted hardware encoding on my Plex server I had to pass the Intel quicksync extension as a PCI passthrough!?

One thing I want to experiment with is a raspberry pi that controls the larger homeserver such that I can remotely turn it on/off for power savings, but I want to do it in a seamless way. Something along the lines of if there's traffic to my Plex server the pi can detect the attempt and spin the VM up on demand

I'm also thinking about reconfigure the Pi to things like PiKVM for remote controlling :)

Hardware encoding requires a GPU, currently I believe the best option is Intel Quick Sync. (Of course if you are using a CPU without iGPU, such as Intel "F" series, NVENC and AMD VCE is also supported by many applications) So it needs to do PCI passthrough to the VM or using a LXC and passthrough it to the LXC container.

One advantage of using LXC than VM is you can share a single GPU between multiple containers at no cost. Technically 12-Gen Intel CPU supports SR-IOV but I'm afraid that the iGPU performance is split among VMs.

somewhat related; My unraid server has been crashing over the last few days so I'm looking at setting up a syslog server using a spare pi4, so i can at least see why it might be crashing. never thought i'd need a supporting machine considering i don't have that many apps runnin, guess i do now though

Great! Moving monitoring/logging to a smaller external server like Pi would be helpful in situations like this. I'll try it too :)

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