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[Proxmox] Jellyfin w/ NAS mount + iGPU passthrough (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 4 months ago by LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Fresh Proxmox install, having a dreadful time. Trying not to be dramatic, but this is much worse than I imagined. I'm trying to migrate services from my NAS (currently docker) to this machine.

How should Jellyfin be set up, lxc or vm? I don't have a preference, but I do plan on using several docker containers (assuming I can get this working within 28 days) in case that makes a difference. I tried WunderTech's setup guide which used an lxc for docker containers and a separate lxc of jellyfin. However that guide isn't working for me: curl doesn't work on my machine, most install scripts don't work, nano edits crash, and mounts are inconsistent.

My Synology NAS is mounted to the host, but making mount points to the lxc doesn't actually connect data. For example, if my NAS's media is in /data/media/movies or /data/media/shows and the host's SMB mount is /data/, choosing the lxc mount point /data/media should work, right?

Is there a way to enable iGPU to pass to an lxc or VM without editing a .conf in nano? When I tried to make suggested edits, the lxc freezes for over 30 minutes and seemingly nothing happens as the edits don't persist.

Any suggestions for resource allocation? I've been looking for guides or a formula to follow for what to provide an lxc or VM to no avail.

If you suggest command lines, please keep them simple as I have to manually type them in.

Here's the hardware: Intel i5-13500 64GB Crucial DR5-4800 ASRock B760M Pro RS 1TB WD SN850X NVMe

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[-] LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago

Do they show up as resources? I add my mount points at the CLI personally, this is the best way imo: pct set 100 -mp0 /mnt/pve/NAS/media,mp=/media

I'd love to check that, but you lost me...

So the NAS was added like you suggested; I can see the NAS's storage listed next to local data. How does one command an lxc or vm to use it though?

[-] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

This line right here shares it with the LXC, I'll break it down for you:

pct set 100 -mp0 /mnt/pve/NAS/media,mp=/media

pct is the proxmox container command, youre telling it to set the mount point (mp0, mp1, mp2, etc). That point on the host is /mnt/pve/yourmountname. In the container is on the right, mp=/your/path/. So inside the container if you did an ls command in the directory /your/path/, it would list the files in /mnt/pve/yourmountname.

The yourmountname part is the name of the storage you added. You can go to the shell at the host level in the GUI, and go to /mnt/pve/ then enter ls and you will see the name of your mount.

So much like I was mentioning with the GPU, what youre doing here is sharing resources with the container, rather than needing to mount the share again in your container. Which you could do, but I wouldn't recommend.

Any other questions I'll be happy to help as best as I can.

Edit: forgot to mention, if you go to the container and go to the resources part, you'll see "Mount Point 0" and the mount point you made listed there.

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