HYPER - V AND STREAMING

[timcfuller]

Has anyone been able to successfully install steam on a HYPER-V virtual machine using remote FX and let games stream from there? I was able to install stream on a Windows 8.1 VM using remote FX but the games run way to slow. I think it’s because I am not familiar with remote FX and the virtual machine isn’t using the GPU completely. So anyone here with familiar of remote FX?

Here’s my step up
Host : Windows Server 2012 R2 - Data Center
Dual Xeon processors
HD 7970 ( X 2 if needed If i put my other 7970 in it would require PSU upgrade)
HD 6850
15 GB Ram
SSD - For Windows Server
SSD - For Hyper - V machines
WD Black 1TB for all of Steam
3- Network NIC adapters


3 Clients: Windows 7
i5 processors
8 GB Ram
SSD Drivers
R7 250 GPU

[Dyzlxic]

Offcourse it works.

If your safer with windows / corporate stuff you should give ESX a try. Here are some links of people who have either running. I think ESX is the easyest. There is a full tutorial at [0].


[0] http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Multi-headed-VMWare-Gaming-Setup-564/

[1] (XEN) http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_VGA_Passthrough_Tested_Adapters

[2] (KVM)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4rF9JRVZuY

[3] (KVM) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi1LdFkRzIs


Your mainboard needs to support IOMMU though so the bus will share the cards between the virt layer and OS.

Have fun.

引用自 timcfuller：

引用自 masni BLADEMASTER：

it would probably work but really slow.... you need xen or even better KVM for vga passthrough...
(windows sucks)

With your pc you could run 2-3 vm-s with gpu for each :) NOT on WINDOWS host though :)

引用自 Dyzlxic：

I am running streams from a KVM (linux kernel virtualization) server

with a amd 280x passed through using the new, relatively, VFIO features of the kernel.

I think with ESXi and XEN it could also work as both can passtrhough a video card but I read here[1] that HyperV does not support it (yet).


[1] http://www.acceleware.com/blog/state-gpu-virtualization-cuda-applications-2014

I would believe you if I had read of another person having success.

[timcfuller]

Success! Will post performace in a few

[timcfuller]

SLOW is the answer so far.

[timcfuller]

I am new to VM's and so far I am learning alot. I'm starting to believe Hyper-V want be the answer. One problem I have discovered with remoteFX is the amount of GPU ram assigned to VM's can't be adjusted.

http://i631.photobucket.com/albums/uu39/timcfuller/c35d9682-2afb-4d6e-8d69-2ae40068e368_zps1eb14e95.png

[timcfuller]

Been using Goat Simulator as test game.

When running just on VM I am getting: slow capture
When streaming from VM I am getting: slow encode

Anyone with any ideals?

[[masni] CYKA CLEANER]

That happens when u use soft encode on cpu, do you install amd driver in vm or just remotefx driver? with remotefx driver i don't think its possible to get descent performace... you need full gpu passthrough, but i don't know that windows can do that with hyper-v.

[timcfuller]

引用自 Dyzlxic：

Offcourse it works.

If your safer with windows / corporate stuff you should give ESX a try. Here are some links of people who have either running. I think ESX is the easyest. There is a full tutorial at [0].


[0] http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Multi-headed-VMWare-Gaming-Setup-564/

[1] (XEN) http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_VGA_Passthrough_Tested_Adapters

[2] (KVM)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4rF9JRVZuY

[3] (KVM) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi1LdFkRzIs


Your mainboard needs to support IOMMU though so the bus will share the cards between the virt layer and OS.

Have fun.

引用自 timcfuller：

I would believe you if I had read of another person having success.

Thank you for this. If I cant get remoteFX to perform any better I'm going to give ESX a try. I have to keep Windows sever and I will just make it on of the VM's on ESX.

What do you guys think about this idea?

[timcfuller]

引用自 masni BLADEMASTER：

That happens when u use soft encode on cpu, do you install amd driver in vm or just remotefx driver? with remotefx driver i don't think its possible to get descent performace... you need full gpu passthrough, but i don't know that windows can do that with hyper-v.

remotefx driver. VM can't see the GPU.

[timcfuller]

引用自 Dyzlxic：

Offcourse it works.

If your safer with windows / corporate stuff you should give ESX a try. Here are some links of people who have either running. I think ESX is the easyest. There is a full tutorial at [0].


[0] http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Multi-headed-VMWare-Gaming-Setup-564/

[1] (XEN) http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_VGA_Passthrough_Tested_Adapters

[2] (KVM)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4rF9JRVZuY

[3] (KVM) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi1LdFkRzIs


Your mainboard needs to support IOMMU though so the bus will share the cards between the virt layer and OS.

Have fun.

引用自 timcfuller：

I would believe you if I had read of another person having success.

I did get better performace from remoteFX but it still isnt good enough. I am going with VMware ESX 5.5. I'm going to convert my phyiscal Windows Server to a VMware machine. Then I am going to make a couple more VM's to remote into for steam games.