I have a used Lenovo Thinkcenter 910 with a i5 7500T running Proxmox with Linux Mint in one VM and Adguard running in another. I’m just getting started so I am reading/searching for tons of answers still
I was hoping to host Jellyfin within Linux Mint. It works pretty well, but I did notice while watching a movie the CPU was pretty well pegged out. I wanted to enable hardware based acceleration but when I started reading setup guides to hope to understand what I was doing, I think I may have painted myself into a corner already.
I think I need to tell Proxmox to pass the hardware acceleration on to Linux, and then get Linux to, but also some of the things I have read make it sound like I need to have set up the VM from the beginning this way.
Am I trying to do this the hard way somehow? Does anyone have any suggestions on the best guide to follow for this?
Its always worked well for me. I passthough my dedicated graphics and USB controller to a Pop os VM and then the integrated graphics to the Jellyfin VM. I initially had to enable virtualization extensions and for the dedicated graphics there was a bit more setup but for the most part it is reasonable.
My point is it’s not actually much (or potentially any) simpler to use PCIe passthrough than using an LXC. Yet it comes with more resource usage and more restrictions. Some hardware is more difficult to pass through, especially with iGPUs. I don’t even think all iGPUs even use PCIe.
Not all of them. Have a look at a Raspberry Pi or Apple Silicon devices. In fact most ARM SoCs I am fairly sure don’t use PCIe for their iGPUs. This makes sense when you think about the unified memory architecture some of these devices use. Just in case you aren’t aware Proxmox does indeed run on a raspberry pi, and I am sure they will gain support for more ARM devices in the future. Though I believe an x86 device with unified memory could also have problems here.