I am new to this whole unraid vnc thing, but basically what I want/need to to is to encode the video stream with h264 for improved performance, and I also want to accelerate the vm with a dedicated gpu installed in the unraid server so I can run graphics intense applications in the unraid vm, It seems that the vnc option should be separate from the assigning a gpu option, is there a way I can connect to a vm with a dedicated gpu assigned? 

You will need a acquire a dedicated video card to put in your unRAID server to pass through to your VM, then you can attach a dedicated monitor to the video card and you will have the full power and potential of the video card for the vm.

 

I do this with a windows 10 VM I have running on a dedicated SSD and I pass through an Nvidia 960 graphics card to the vm and use it as a gaming machine, it has it own dedicated monitor, keyboard and mouse. I play the latest Call of Duty on it no problems.

Yes I do this to, but, I want to be able to also connect to that same vm over vnc and get the power of the gpu and use it for video stream encoding to get much better performance when connecting remotely

If you want to stream remotely, then I would look into setting up a plex server, either as a docker or in your VM. As far as I know, plex utilizes CPU for encoding, not an actual graphics adapter, so if your system has a quad core i7 you should be fine.

what I meant to say was streaming of the desktop (and more specificaly the output of the gpu) from a virtual machine not actual video/movie files

Yes I do this to, but, I want to be able to also connect to that same vm over vnc and get the power of the gpu and use it for video stream encoding to get much better performance when connecting remotely

 

I may not fully understand what you are wanting to do but I believe VNC is not ideal for what you may be looking to do. I would check out Microsoft RDP for stream.

 

thanks for the tip I will try that