Thanks @meep and @jonathanm! I appreciate you taking the time to respond. Your insights are extremely helpful.
The fire 4K sticks was my backup plan. I’m currently running an FX based VM server at home with emby, and agree that solution would fit the bill with much less hassle.
However, I’d really like each workstation to handle gaming. At home, that just means dedicated computers for each “gaming capable” client. A couple thousand watts of gaming juice for 4 computers won’t cause a problem. But on the boat, I feel like consolidating clients into one box is more efficient. Also, all the hdmi cords are already running to a centralized location. Removing gaming from the requirements is probably what’s going to happen.
I have heard that getting dedicated resources for 4 pcs using passthrough on unraid is difficult. Thanks for confirming that. I don’t want to be constantly screwing with things on the boat. Don’t get me wrong, I love complicated nerdy setups. I just don’t want to sink a month into getting this working.
Aster looked very interesting, but I have to tell you their marketing makes me feel like it’s an outdated product build by a foreign company. It’s really a missed opportunity if the product is good. If they have a trial I may give it a spin.
As far as putting a computer on a bouncy boat, no spinning hard drives is the most obvious mitigation strategy. Everything else is going to be mounted to something that is shock resistant. We’ll see how it holds up.
I think I’ve convinced myself that a single VM passthrough is the way to go. The others will likely be thin clients or maybe Astor will work. Thanks again!
