21
Releasing Wolf: Stream virtual desktops and games running in Docker (games-on-whales.github.io)
submitted 3 years ago by abeltramo@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
23 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Hello everyone! ๐Ÿ‘‹

For the past year I had fun messing around with Docker containers, Moonlight/Sunshine and HW acceleration; so much so that I've ended up building a Gamestream server from scratch!

The basic underlying idea is to allow the followings:

  • Share a single server (possibly headless but doesn't have to be) with multiple users
  • by creating virtual HW accelerated desktops
  • whilst keeping remote mouse, keyboard and controllers completely separated
  • with low latency

It's still rough around the edges, and it needs more testing from the community; if you want to check it out, here you can read the docs and here's the Github repo.

top 23 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] thehatfox@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago

Wow, this is impressive. Already seems quite stable, I got it running straight away on a headless machine with an Intel i5-7400T running Ubuntu 22.04. I think I need to do some optimising, but I can already use it as a somewhat convoluted way to get proper adblocking on an iPad!

I noticed a small mistake in the docs - the docker run command in the quickstart is missing a backslash.

The PulseAudio container also doesn't stop when the main wolf container stops - not sure if that's expected behaviour or not.

I'm excited to see where this project goes, I can see a bunch of uses for this running graphical application remotely.

[-] abeltramo@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago

Thanks for trying it out and for the feedback, I'm glad it works!

You are right, we should probably stop and remove the pulse container; I'll add it to the things that needs to be improved.

[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 2 points 3 years ago

ingenious idea, but for having adfree youtube on the ipad the easiest way is to use invidious :)

[-] LollerCorleone@kbin.social 2 points 3 years ago

This looks really cool!

[-] delcake@lemmy.songsforno.one 2 points 3 years ago

Whoa, what a cool project! It seems like way more than I need for single-user purposes, but I've been relying on Moonlight, Sunshine, and Chiaki quite a lot more than I ever expected to since I ended up taking quite a liking to using the Steam Deck as a pseudo thin-client. Kind of the best of both worlds letting another machine do the heavy lifting somewhere else in the house, so any advancements in the local game streaming space are extremely welcome to see.

[-] abeltramo@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago

Yeah the Steam Deck is such a perfect target for Moonlight I use it for all the demanding games that I can't run properly natively or when playing on the couch with a big screen.

[-] grumpyrico@lemmy.world 1 points 3 years ago

wohoooo ... this looks fun.

will spend one of the next weekends to have a look

[-] abeltramo@lemmy.world 0 points 3 years ago

Thanks! If you manage to try it out please let us know how it goes!

[-] grumpyrico@lemmy.world 1 points 3 years ago

will do

[-] ProfessionalBoofis@lemmy.world 1 points 3 years ago

Damn that's cool

[-] mirisbowring@lemmy.primboard.de 0 points 3 years ago

Would i deploy this on a VM or Bare Metal? Evaluating whether i should try it on my Unraid.

But looks Great!

[-] abeltramo@lemmy.world 0 points 3 years ago

It doesn't matter, as long as you have Docker installed (and possibly a GPU to HW accelerate things) you are good to go!

[-] Upronn@lemmy.world 0 points 3 years ago

Does it matter what kind of GPU you have? Would any GPU be able to run multiple gaming instances at the same time?

[-] abeltramo@lemmy.world 0 points 3 years ago

They should all be supported but there's only so many types of HW that we can test. So far we've got reports of Nvidia, AMD and Intel all working in different setups.

[-] Upronn@lemmy.world 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

That's great to hear. This might be the holy grail of game streaming server setups. I could build one strong server with one gpu and have it serve an arbitrary number of clients. Since they are all effectively Linux desktops, they should have a wide range of compatibility via WINE and emulators.

I did some more research and came up with another question: Does Vulkan work on AMD GPUs?

[-] draecas@lemmy.world 0 points 3 years ago

What's required to map a folder into one of the containers (i.e. retroarch)? I've attempted to edit config.toml to include it, but the main wolf container immediately crashes on boot due to interrupt code 11. There's no other error messages, just a binary stack trace.

The folder exists. I've tried directly mounting the host path as well as mounting it into Wolf-Wolf-1 and using the local path, but nothing works. Even perfectly mirrored paths don't work. Wolf appears to be running as root so I don't think it's a permissions error? I can certainly access the folders. They are a locally mounted NFS, but I've used this with dozens of containers without issue.

[-] abeltramo@lemmy.world 1 points 3 years ago

It's probably failing to parse the config.toml file, although that should usually print a proper error line. Have you tried deleting the file or copy and paste the default?

[-] draecas@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago

Looks like the mount definitions require the :ro (or maybe :rq?) at the end unlike regular docker volumes, that was the issue.

[-] abeltramo@lemmy.world 1 points 3 years ago

Ooops that was a lazy leftover from my side, sorry about that. Thanks for letting me know, I'll fix it soon!

[-] llanoraw@lemmy.world 0 points 3 years ago

Very nice! I've been on the hunt for a headless gamestream solution but not found something yet so will definitely be watching this project.

On first run it was failing to work, console log was showing http errors.

Also, it looks like lots of things run with Docker priveleged=true / root permissions? That's a no-go in my book. Any reason why?

[-] abeltramo@lemmy.world 0 points 3 years ago

On first run it was failing to work, console log was showing http errors.

Would you like to open up an issue on Github or share some logs in our Discord channel?

Also, it looks like lots of things run with Docker priveleged=true

Are you talking about Games on Whales compose file and script? That's a bit legacy as things are right now, Wolf does run all containers as unprivileged by default

[-] llanoraw@lemmy.world 0 points 3 years ago

Oops! Mixed up the two repos. Thanks for clarifying.

I'll post a log as well with the error I'm getting.

[-] abeltramo@lemmy.world 1 points 3 years ago

Makes sense, as for the HTTP errors someone else reported on the Discord server that it might happen if you had previously paired on that host with Sunshine. If you unpair from Moonlight and pair again it seems to work

this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2023
21 points (100.0% liked)

Selfhosted

61647 readers
201 users here now

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

Rules:

Detailed Rules Post

  1. Be civil.

  2. No spam.

  3. Posts are to be related to self-hosting.

  4. Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or readme if you're providing a link.

  5. Submission headline should match the article title.

  6. No trolling.

  7. Promotion posts require active participation, with an account that is at least 30 days old. F/LOSS without a paywall has exceptions, with requirements. See the rules link for details. Tags [CBH] or [AIP] are required, see the links in Rule 8 for details.

  8. AI-related discussions and AI-involved promotional posts have additional requirements for tagging, as noted in Rule 7 and the AI & Promotional Post Expanded Rules post, and find example disclosures here.

Resources:

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
ruud@lemmy.world
Loki@lemmy.world
CannaVet@lemmy.world
devve@lemmy.world
ayyy@sh.itjust.works
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus
curbstickle_lw@lemmy.world