{"id":490,"date":"2017-03-16T09:48:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T23:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parablog-wordpress.dockerbox.rei.moe\/?p=490"},"modified":"2017-03-16T09:48:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T23:18:39","slug":"can-i-game-on-a-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lewys.eu\/?p=490","title":{"rendered":"Can I game on a server?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So i&#8217;ve wanted to try this one for a while, can I install a desktop GPU into a server, and pass it through to a VM for gaming on?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Well my server has 128GB RAM, 4 SSDs RAIDed together, and 16 logical processors, so like, why not add a GPU and play some games on it!?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I picked up a GT740 second hand on a buy sell facebook group, and i&#8217;ve spun up a VM running Windows 10 x64 to install steam on.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I HAVE NO IDEA!\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DNeikvoqQ-s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I test fit the GPU into my Dell R210, and it doesnt really fit with the fan on, so removing the fan so its just a heatsink lets it fit, but im not sure if the airflow inside will be enough to cool it down? hopefully.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Its not going in the R210 anyway, its going in the R610.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ill power it down shortly and test fit it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>OK, I had to cut the end off one of the PCIE slots as the R610 only had x8 slots, but that wasn&#8217;t too hard, just some very careful dremel work then a small file to clean it up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I also had to cut off the little lock part of the GPU, the part at the end of the connector, as the R610 raiser card has a large component there (intrusion detection switch maybe?)<\/p>\n<p>With those two parts removed it fits in well.<\/p>\n<p>The system is taking a *very* long time to boot&#8230; but it is booting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the video is coming from the onboard graphics though.<\/p>\n<p>WE HAVE ESXi!!!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Okay it booted and detected the GPU correctly, but looks like getting NVidia pci-e passthrough is a pain in the ass&#8230;. Might look into an AMD card at some point instead. Until then Ill mark this as a maybe!<\/p>\n<p>Maybe ill migrate all the VMs from the R210 over to the R610 and then setup the R210 with a desktop OS ? hmm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So i&#8217;ve wanted to try this one for a while, can I install a desktop GPU into a server, and pass it through to a VM for gaming on? &nbsp; Why? &nbsp; Well my server has 128GB RAM, 4 SSDs RAIDed together, and 16 logical processors, so like, why not add a GPU and play &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lewys.eu\/?p=490\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can I game on a server?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,26,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homelab","category-networking","category-projects"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lewys.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lewys.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lewys.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lewys.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lewys.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lewys.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lewys.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions\/494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lewys.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lewys.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lewys.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}