Greetings unRAID forum,

 

Background: My previous experience with assigning GPUs to a VM is in the Citrix world. During a bench test, we attempted to assign a GPU to a XenServer hosted VM running Windows, installed a few games, and then presented them via XenApp. When we fired up the games, it recognized that we were trying to play remotely as the Citrix ICA client runs over MS RDP. It then denied us gaming joy.

 

Question: I'm assuming remote access to unRAID created Windows VMs will either be via RDP or VNC. This would mean that games that are coded to not allow remote gameplay will not work in the unRAID config either. Unless I'm way off base. Can someone shed some light onto if gaming on a remote system is possible with unRAID. What configs am I not reading that allow this?

 

Thanks everyone,

-SG

Hi,

 

I think Steam In-Home Streaming could be what you're looking for...

 

http://store.steampowered.com/streaming/

 

SR

SR,

 

Ooh! This looks promising. Have you tried doing this via a VM installed on unRAID and playing on a remote machine? How'd it work?

 

Thanks,

-SG

I haven't tried it myself, but others here have.

 

From what I've read, it's pretty good although performance drops over Wi-Fi.

 

As far as running in a VM goes, you'd need to pass through a discrete GPU to do the hardware encoding but as long as the unRAID box is capable you shouldn't have a problem.

 

SR

You won't be able to play games remotely using VNC or RDP.

 

SR,

 

Ooh! This looks promising. Have you tried doing this via a VM installed on unRAID and playing on a remote machine? How'd it work?

 

Thanks,

-SG

 

Steam in-home streaming works decently well. Make sure to throw enough cores and RAM to the VM (and obviously pass through the discrete GPU). For best results, make sure the machine you're playing on is on ethernet.

You won't be able to play games remotely using VNC or RDP.

Solitaire works fine via VNC or RDP. So I would amend your broad stroke to say 3D accelerated games won't play via RDP or VNC.