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For years, I've been obsessed with turning my homelab servers into Cloud Gaming servers. Having a headless gaming machine I can call up from any device on a moment's notice, and be able to play games from anywhere is one of my all-time goals. So when I saw an AMD Radeon Pro W5500 8GB GPU on eBay for $90, I knew what had to be done.

Today, I'm going to walk through installing and setting up a Virtual Gaming Machine in Proxmox, with the use of Bazzite, Sunshine, and Moonlight... all open-source tools you can use to build your own headless Linux Gaming VM.

But first... What am I drinking???

The Brewing Project (Eau Claire, WI) CHOMP CHOMP Imperial Sour Ale (6.9%)

Proxmox PCIe Passthrough documentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rPTKi_b7EFqKTMylH64b3Dg9W0N_XIhO

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GPU
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YouTube

A comprehensive guide to creating a remote gaming setup using a home lab server with GPU passthrough. The tutorial covers installing Bazzite Linux in a Proxmox VM, configuring the AMD Radeon Pro W5500 GPU for passthrough, and setting up Sunshine/Moonlight for remote streaming. Performance testing shows the $90 W5500 outperforms modern gaming handhelds, achieving 55+ FPS in games like Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 at 1080p medium settings. The setup enables gaming on any device through network streaming while utilizing idle server hardware.

Creating a Linux Gaming VM with Bazzite - Cloud Gaming Server Tutorial