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Proxmox - GPU Passthru (Gaming VM)

posted Jan 16, 2021, 4:47 AM by Chris Franklin

So the idea was to allow gaming via steamlink, Moonlight or rdp. The spare GPU is a Nvidia GTX 970.

VM Config:

VM

audio0: device=ich9-intel-hda,driver=spice

balloon: 0

bios: ovmf

boot: order=virtio0;net0

cores: 5

cpu: host,hidden=1,flags=+pcid

efidisk0: local-zfs:vm-119-disk-1,size=1M

hostpci0: 42:00.0,pcie=1,x-vga=1

hostpci1: 42:00.1,pcie=1

machine: q35

memory: 16000

name: Gaming

net0: virtio=32:5C:23:AB:B7:BB,bridge=vmbr0,firewall=1

numa: 0

ostype: win10

scsihw: virtio-scsi-single

smbios1: uuid=56972211-eb56-407c-bf7e-3aaec9422336

sockets: 2

vga: none

virtio0: local-zfs:vm-119-disk-0,backup=0,cache=writeback,size=32G

virtio1: local-zfs:vm-119-disk-2,backup=0,cache=writeback,size=200G

vmgenid: e7c53bb6-6bcb-4e8e-8d0c-7ce54469dea2

Proxmox - Install megacli

posted Jan 5, 2021, 5:16 AM by Chris Franklin

This script simply installs the repo for hwraid.le-vert.net and then megaclisas-status and megacli packages.

setup_megicli.bash

#!/bin/bash

_WGET=$(which wget)

if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then

apt update

apt install wget -y

fi

$_WGET -O - https://hwraid.le-vert.net/debian/hwraid.le-vert.net.gpg.key | apt-key add -

if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then

cat <<EOF>/etc/apt/sources.list.d/megacli.list

deb http://hwraid.le-vert.net/debian buster main

EOF

fi

apt update && apt install -y megaclisas-status megacli

Proxmox - Install Chrome

posted Jan 5, 2021, 5:14 AM by Chris Franklin

This script installs chrome and allows it to run as root.

setup_chrome.bash

#!/bin/bash

_WGET=$(which wget)

if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then

apt update

apt install wget -y

fi

$_WGET https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb -O /tmp/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then

apt install -y /tmp/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

if [ $? -eq 0 ] && [ -e /tmp/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb ]; then

rm /tmp/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb

fi

# fix root access to chrome

sed -i.backup 's/exec\ \-a\ \"\$0\"\ \"\$HERE\/chrome\"\ \"\$\@\"$/exec\ \-a\ \"\$0\"\ \"\$HERE\/chrome\"\ \"\$\@\"\ \-\-user\-data\-dir\ \-\-test\-type\ \-\-no\-sandbox/g

' /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome

Proxmox - Install Desktop

posted Jan 5, 2021, 5:12 AM by Chris Franklin

This script will install a light weight GUI (xfce), disable the extra power settings (sleep, suspend, hibernate) and allow root to login to the gui. This along with a browser helps simplify tasks that need to be done while your on/at the host itself.

setup_xfce.bash

#!/bin/bash

apt update && apt install lightdm xfce4 gpm xfce4-terminal --no-install-recommends -y

if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then

systemctl set-default graphical.target

fi

# Allow root

sed -i.backup 's/^minimum-uid/#minimum-uid/g' /etc/lightdm/users.conf

# Disable all power settings.

systemctl mask sleep.target suspend.target hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target