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this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2026
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When you spur of the moment decide to turn your gaming pc into a proxmox machine and then miss gaming so you end up down a rabbit hole of iommu groups to pass your Gpu through to a steam os VM to wrestle with Linux virtual display drivers so you can use sunshine to cast your games to your laptop
It eventually worked but you can quickly end up in a niche hell hole with little to no coherent documentation.
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Holy shit you just described my setup to a T
Is it worth it after that's all said and done?
I'd love to power gaming in my house from a central server, but I keep imagining that it would be spotty and frustrating as hell.
Game streaming is good, but not perfect. It's useable, but you do get the occasional stutter, dropped frames, connection issues, etc. Not to mention increased input lag.
If you must have your PC in a different room, you'd be better off buying an optical hdmi cord. That's what I do for gaming on my TV after playing a few games through various game streaming apps and getting fed up with it.
I've seen this idea a few times now. How do you get your controllers to connect? Say I want to keep my PC in the basement and have a TV on the second floor. How do I connect the controllers?
I've done this a few ways:
Optical thunderbolt to thunderbolt dock.. so the dock would be next to your tv and you plugin to the dock with whatever. This works amazingly well.
Game streaming over Ethernet - moonlight/sunshine do a great job, on a high quality network it's not noticable. Only downside is they don't forward microphone, so you end up doing some gymnastics to get microphone input.
I’m not sure how the person you responded to did it, but LTT has a whole video series on doing just that from what I remember.
I run a USB to Ethernet adapter from my PC to living room TV along with a optical HDMI cable, I even have a second HDMI for when I want to run a second portable monitor on the couch arm rest for notes and stuff
Your mileage will vary some hardware has better support than others latency can be an issue on titles that are sensitive to it.
Rocket league is unplayable but survival craft games play really well!
The most straightforward approach to dabbling with it would be to install classicoldsongs Apollo on a windows machine it includes virtual display drivers that just work out the box, pair a moonlight client and see how it works for you!
Years ago, I used Moonlight to cast to an Nvidia Shield. It worked pretty well, although it still required a lot of back and forth to tinker with things on the host PC. Still, it was better than the Steam Link at the time. Recently, I tried using the built-in streaming in Steam to play on a different PC in the house, but it was much the same story: lots of back-and-forth, launchers were annoying, and sometimes it wouldn't display on the right screen.
Maybe virtual machines would be an improvement.
I converted my gaming machine into a server a while back. I like to live dangerously though, no proxmox. Baremetal. If my blog is slow, sorry y'all, I'm gaming. Deal with it.
I am so pleased with so many crazy people in this thread. I'm not alone!!!!!
I've got 2 proxmox servers and I'd never have the courage to try that, seems hardcore as fuck
You seem to have similar setup
Though for gaming I still use it mostly "directly"
Sunshine only when Im bored on work laptop
The VM still outputs to same display and has keyboard/mouse/etc. passed
I've been happy with the setup for the last year and half or so
Ive been thinking about this for a while, but I imagined it could become hell on earth, thanks for the warning! It will keep the idea away from my head for another week or so