I am currently struggling to configure my lxc container for Plex as such that hw acceleration of my xeon e3-1275 v6 is recognized and used. Has anyone succeeded? My base system is running Proxmox V5.1 with Linux kernel 4.13.13

This is an amazing tutorial, thank you SO much for taking the time to write it and share it. It worked brilliantly! I feel this should be on the official Plex docs for people who want to run their own LXC Plex container. One question - how can you make sure that GPU acceleration is used? I can’t be…

Sorry for the slow reply, if you kick off a GPU transcode you should be able to see the process on the proxmox server with the nvidia-smi command.

I spent few hours to configure Intel GPU on my LXC container. (according to presented procedure)… but unfortunately with no success. here is my output from container: root@TVH:~# vainfo error: can't connect to X server! libva info: VA-API version 0.39.4 libva info: va_getDriverName() returns 0 li…

So I’m no expert on passing the intel gpu through but based on the “Read-only file system” my guess would be the permissions aren’t getting set for the container to be allowed to write through to the device.

You mean about “unprivileged container” ? I’m using also PCIe passthrough and everything works fine .

Hi, love your guide, but had a problem after finishing all the steps, without any failure. So I can see my GTX960 in the LXC (Ubuntu) and “nvidia-smi” is working well in there. But when I run a movie/series etc. and starting transcoding using the HW acceleration, the GPU does nothing (Well, the mem…

Are you looking at nvidia-smi in the LXC container or the host? It won’t show any activity in the LXC container while transcoding, you’ll have to look at it on the host to see if it’s transcoding.

I was look on the host, as well as on LXC. Here are some pictures, which show that the HW acceleration is (more or less) just working on two streams. While going through your ‘guide’ the patch also said “Patched!”. Yesterday I also have redone all the steps, but it was giving the same result. [S…

I wouldn’t say that’s unusual, I get 0% utilization on my 980Ti decoding and encoding from 1080p to SD h264. [image] [image]

Plex HW acceleration in LXC container - anyone with success?

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pl_5309 August 15, 2019, 12:38pm 44

Which link did you follow? The one in this thread or the original Linux Tips

ix-9xxx cpus are not working yet.

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