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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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[-] Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

Unraid does an excellent job at this. I helped a friend setup a rack mounted server, it runs home assistant, some other containers, and a VM for him to work in, or play games. AMD GPU being passed through.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

So my desktop is virtio based and uses pcie passthough to passthough the USB controller and GPU. It works fine as long as it has enough cores. There is some setup involved but most hardware works.

On my laptop I use VMs for a few things and that works well as long as you setup the proper guest addons. I use KVM with gnome boxes and virtual manager.

[-] we_avoid_temptation@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago

Xen has support for AMD cards intended for this that are fairly inexpensive on eBay. The S7150x2 should be what you're looking for.

[-] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
NAS Network-Attached Storage
NAT Network Address Translation
PCIe Peripheral Component Interconnect Express
PSU Power Supply Unit
VPN Virtual Private Network

5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 5 acronyms.

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