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Fully Virtualized Gaming Server? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For years I’ve had a dream of building a rack mounted PC capable of splitting its resources to host multiple GPU intensive VMs:

a few gaming VMs
a VM for work that can run Davinci Resolve and Blender renders
an LLM server
a Stable Diffusion server
media server

Just to name a few possibilities…

Everytime I’ve looked into it, it seemed like the technology just wasn’t there yet. I remember a few years ago Linus TT took a shot at it, but in the end suggested the technology (for non-commercial entities) just wasn’t in a comfortable spot yet.

So how far off are we? Obviously AI focused companies seem to make it work, but what possibilities exist for us self-hosters who might also want to run multiple displays in addition to the web gui LLM servers? And without forking out crazy money for GPU virtualization software licenses?

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The technology has "been there" for a while, it's trivial do setup what you're asking for, the issue is that games have anti cheat engines that will get triggered by the virtualization and ban you.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Which games do that? Running pasthrough gpu on windows for destiny and halo at least gave me 0 issues for years

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Anything using vanguard such as valorant and league of legends, battleye such as pubg, destiny 2, and rainbow 6 siege, and easy anti cheat such as fortnight blocks virtual machines. Vanguard is especially bad because it will not allow to run the game with Intel-VT/AMD-V enabled even if you are running bare metal as of its last update.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

this just makes me wanna install bare-metal goody-2-shoes windows and cheat using a 5$ arduino

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

That’s weird destiny 2 has never given me issue, though I don’t play super frequently so maybe I’m just lucky

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Vanguard is especially bad because it will not allow to run the game with Intel-VT/AMD-V enabled even if you are running bare metal as of its last update.

The Vanguard anti-cheat is incredibly invasive and something akin to malware, so that's not surprising.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I'm surprised, I was pretty sure anything with Battleye flat out rejected virtualization.

I thought Destiny used Battleye but I must be mistaken on one of these points.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Most likely everything Steam + VAC or Denuvo. There's a lot of discussion on that topic around the web.