Newbie question about Core Ultra (155h) Arc igpu and proxmox

[Thrawn_JL]

So first of all i am a COMPLEATE newbie when it comes to proxmox.

I am hoping to get it up running on my homelab on 2 machines. 1x core ultra 155h with 64gig ram and 2tb nvme. This one I want to run ubuntu server on with a desktop enverionment. Docker with portainer. The MAIN use for this nuc is my plex server which I would like to run with hw transcoding on the ARC igpu in the system.

The other machine is a NUC 14 essential n355 with 2tb nvme and 16gig ram.

This one i want to run a homeassistant os in a vm on and some docker containers that I want to run all the time (The 155h closes down at night together with my NAS servers)

is any of this even possible?

Again this is the first time dabbling with proxmox so compleatly noob here.

The vm container i tried to make on the 155h I can’t get the desktop to work and I am very unsure if i managed to get the pci pass though to work

on the n355 I can’t get proxmox to find the network card it seems to only find the wifi

I hope someone can help me or guide me into the right frame of mind for this

Thank you all in advance!

/Thrawn

 

[patrickc204]

So first of all i am a COMPLEATE newbie when it comes to proxmox.

I am hoping to get it up running on my homelab on 2 machines. 1x core ultra 155h with 64gig ram and 2tb nvme. This one I want to run ubuntu server on with a desktop enverionment. Docker with portainer. The MAIN use for this nuc is my plex server which I would like to run with hw transcoding on the ARC igpu in the system.

The other machine is a NUC 14 essential n355 with 2tb nvme and 16gig ram.

This one i want to run a homeassistant os in a vm on and some docker containers that I want to run all the time (The 155h closes down at night together with my NAS servers)

is any of this even possible?

Again this is the first time dabbling with proxmox so compleatly noob here.

The vm container i tried to make on the 155h I can’t get the desktop to work and I am very unsure if i managed to get the pci pass though to work

on the n355 I can’t get proxmox to find the network card it seems to only find the wifi

I hope someone can help me or guide me into the right frame of mind for this

Thank you all in advance!

/Thrawn

Hi Thrawn Im still sort of new I've only been using Proxmox for maybe a couple years but i have answers for you.

For your concern when it comes to running homeassisnt os and docker containers that is absolutely possible. i would recommend running the docker containers in a LXC as its much more lightweight compared to a full VM.

In terms of shutting them down I'm not aware of any elegant solution to do this, i was working on a project to do that but haven't gotten around to finishing it. You can setup a script in your favorite programming language. i was using python for this, to shutdown the host(server) at a certain time. And then i also have a raspberry pi that would use Wake On LAN to wake it back up in the morning. Worth some research time because someone has definitely made something elegant. Depending on the options in the bios you can also use a setting in the bios to turn on at a set time.

For your concern on getting a desktop to work on the "vm container" i assume you mean a LXC, they do not support running a desktop other than using a Remote Desktop solution, such as xrdp. Also for a LXC you shouldn't need to passthrough as for things like graphics cards and GPU it has direct access because of how it works, it actually runs using the hosts kernel rather than running its own like in a vm.

For the n355 not finding your network card i cant help without more information.

You may also want to look into jellyfin aswell and see if it fits, Plex has better content matching but you have to pay for hw transcoding, there also been other concerns in the community about plex. jellyfin works great, just sometimes you have to manually match the content. If you want to access it from outside of your home you will either need to make port fowarding rules, or do what i do and run wireguard VPN in a docker container using wg-easy and access it that way. This will also allow you to access everything else. There are also other vpn options such as openvpn and tailscale.

Also seeing as you're running two machines i would recommend running all your docker on the one machine and run your media library in windows, ive found that hardware video encoding/decoding support is better than compared to linux, though my experience is with Nvidia gpu's. i should definitely have a fiddle around. Always worth doing your own testing.

One more thing to watch out for. when it comes to passing through GPU's you should be careful as sometimes (i think it better in newer version of proxmox), but if you pass though the only gpu you have in the system without proper configuration it will cause proxmox to crash at which point you have to hard restart the machine. There are plenty of good guides out there, you just have to blacklist proxmox from loading the driver, its pretty easy.

Have fun tinkering
Patrick

 

[Thrawn_JL]

Hi Thrawn Im still sort of new I've only been using Proxmox for maybe a couple years but i have answers for you.

For your concern when it comes to running homeassisnt os and docker containers that is absolutely possible. i would recommend running the docker containers in a LXC as its much more lightweight compared to a full VM.

In terms of shutting them down I'm not aware of any elegant solution to do this, i was working on a project to do that but haven't gotten around to finishing it. You can setup a script in your favorite programming language. i was using python for this, to shutdown the host(server) at a certain time. And then i also have a raspberry pi that would use Wake On LAN to wake it back up in the morning. Worth some research time because someone has definitely made something elegant. Depending on the options in the bios you can also use a setting in the bios to turn on at a set time.

For your concern on getting a desktop to work on the "vm container" i assume you mean a LXC, they do not support running a desktop other than using a Remote Desktop solution, such as xrdp. Also for a LXC you shouldn't need to passthrough as for things like graphics cards and GPU it has direct access because of how it works, it actually runs using the hosts kernel rather than running its own like in a vm.

For the n355 not finding your network card i cant help without more information.

You may also want to look into jellyfin aswell and see if it fits, Plex has better content matching but you have to pay for hw transcoding, there also been other concerns in the community about plex. jellyfin works great, just sometimes you have to manually match the content. If you want to access it from outside of your home you will either need to make port fowarding rules, or do what i do and run wireguard VPN in a docker container using wg-easy and access it that way. This will also allow you to access everything else. There are also other vpn options such as openvpn and tailscale.

Also seeing as you're running two machines i would recommend running all your docker on the one machine and run your media library in windows, ive found that hardware video encoding/decoding support is better than compared to linux, though my experience is with Nvidia gpu's. i should definitely have a fiddle around. Always worth doing your own testing.

One more thing to watch out for. when it comes to passing through GPU's you should be careful as sometimes (i think it better in newer version of proxmox), but if you pass though the only gpu you have in the system without proper configuration it will cause proxmox to crash at which point you have to hard restart the machine. There are plenty of good guides out there, you just have to blacklist proxmox from loading the driver, its pretty easy.

Have fun tinkering
Patrick

First of all thank you SO much for your time and feedback! It really means a lot to me since my time with Proxmox so far has been a mix of fun, loneliness, success and frustration

I have more or less forgotten about this post and my reddit post since there have been no reaction, but I will give you a little update of where I am in my proxmox Journey so far!

A not about Plex, Thank you so much for your thoughts on this i am aware of the talk on plex forums about it but for now I am not switching from plex unless they go down or stop making servers for home use, A friend of mine gave me lifetime pass some years ago so the HW transcoding is not an issue. I have a very large movie collection that I dont want to move to another system unless I am really forced to. I am considering dabbling a bit with Jellyfin just in case plex goes bankrupt or something though.

The Nuc 14 pro with the 155h cpu and ARC igpu I have given up on (for now). I was using the NVME drive for my Nuc essential 355 to try and set it up without having to destroy everything I had up and running in my ubuntu server on bare metal.
I could not for the life of me get the IGPU to work for transcoding in plex. I admit I have not tried it in an LXC, but since I am not using my other NVME in my n355, I dont know how to test this out without having to reinstall my 155h machine except for buying a third NVME that I dont actually need right now Any cheaper and safer suggestions would be appreciated

As for the Arc igpus and the Core ultra cpus in general I have been able to find very little info about if anyone actually got them working for hw transcoding (and some AI stuff for immich would be very appreciated too) I have seen a few posts about it, some saying they are not supported for virtualisation from Intels side, I dont know what this means, I am thinking it means I cant split it up between serveral vms but again I dont understand it well enough.
So I have given up on all that for now (Would love to get it to work at some point because what i HAVE got working I love so far)

Ok now for the more fun stuff.
The n355 I have gotten to work, I ended up buying a ugreen USB-A 2.5gig nic which worked out of the box. With this I installed the network drivers for the Nuc 14 essential and got that up running.
Currently I am running
Homeassistant OS as a VM with usb ports and bluetooth passthough and I got everything backup up running in my Homeassistant setup

Then I am running an ubuntu server with desktop (just for XRDP as its headless) for the ease of use since I know and understand how to do stuff like folder NFS mounts and folder management in this I am running docker on it with Portainer as my gui for docker. The reason for portainer is I have now 2 NAS with a few docker containers and portainer, my 155h ubuntu server with docker containers and portainer and of course this n355. Using portainer means that 1. I have a gui (which i am a sucker for) and 2. I have a way to control all of it from one interface as I have connected them all into one portainer instance.

Now this ubuntu vm I have tried to use ballooning on because I only have 16gig of total RAM in the Nuc essential and I can’t get more (tried with a 32 stick but it wont boot). I can’t get ballooning to work though, I am guessing because Ubuntu uses all the ram not being used for buffer/cache.

on top of these 2 vms I am running the following in a LXC because if i mess around with the VM they goes down otherwise.

Uptime-Kuma, Adguard home and NGINX proxy manager and some NUT webpage thing that can give me a overview of my 2 UPS.

Except fort the NUT thing all of these are from the proxmox helper script library. I have considered setting up the rest of the current docker containers in LXC but 1. I dont really know how to do it? one for each or one for them all with portainer? Also I use tailscale in most of my containers or on the actually system. The folder management on ubuntu vm is so helpful for me for backup and restore moving around while i get things to wok, that I worry about moving it all into LXC and cli instead.


Ok my latest project Is getting a Proxmox backup sever up and running on one of my synology NAS in a VM using an NFS share as a source, And I have gotten ALL this to work except for one thing, I can’t get the API token thing to work currently, meaning I can’t add 2fa to my pbs account. But everything else works.

I think this is where I am for now, I have tried to figure it all out myself, using what ever I could find on the net and most of all using Chatgpt free version, the AI is many times very useful, but when its not its frustration because it goes around in circles with its answers.

If you get more time let me know your thoughts and ideas When proxmox is working i REALLY love the ease of managing the hardware and the backups.

again thank you so much for your time and feedback! Really appreciated it and I hope my long post is not too much.

/Thawnk

 

[patrickc204]

First of all thank you SO much for your time and feedback! It really means a lot to me since my time with Proxmox so far has been a mix of fun, loneliness, success and frustration

I have more or less forgotten about this post and my reddit post since there have been no reaction, but I will give you a little update of where I am in my proxmox Journey so far!

A not about Plex, Thank you so much for your thoughts on this i am aware of the talk on plex forums about it but for now I am not switching from plex unless they go down or stop making servers for home use, A friend of mine gave me lifetime pass some years ago so the HW transcoding is not an issue. I have a very large movie collection that I dont want to move to another system unless I am really forced to. I am considering dabbling a bit with Jellyfin just in case plex goes bankrupt or something though.

The Nuc 14 pro with the 155h cpu and ARC igpu I have given up on (for now). I was using the NVME drive for my Nuc essential 355 to try and set it up without having to destroy everything I had up and running in my ubuntu server on bare metal.
I could not for the life of me get the IGPU to work for transcoding in plex. I admit I have not tried it in an LXC, but since I am not using my other NVME in my n355, I dont know how to test this out without having to reinstall my 155h machine except for buying a third NVME that I dont actually need right now Any cheaper and safer suggestions would be appreciated

As for the Arc igpus and the Core ultra cpus in general I have been able to find very little info about if anyone actually got them working for hw transcoding (and some AI stuff for immich would be very appreciated too) I have seen a few posts about it, some saying they are not supported for virtualisation from Intels side, I dont know what this means, I am thinking it means I cant split it up between serveral vms but again I dont understand it well enough.
So I have given up on all that for now (Would love to get it to work at some point because what i HAVE got working I love so far)

Ok now for the more fun stuff.
The n355 I have gotten to work, I ended up buying a ugreen USB-A 2.5gig nic which worked out of the box. With this I installed the network drivers for the Nuc 14 essential and got that up running.
Currently I am running
Homeassistant OS as a VM with usb ports and bluetooth passthough and I got everything backup up running in my Homeassistant setup

Then I am running an ubuntu server with desktop (just for XRDP as its headless) for the ease of use since I know and understand how to do stuff like folder NFS mounts and folder management in this I am running docker on it with Portainer as my gui for docker. The reason for portainer is I have now 2 NAS with a few docker containers and portainer, my 155h ubuntu server with docker containers and portainer and of course this n355. Using portainer means that 1. I have a gui (which i am a sucker for) and 2. I have a way to control all of it from one interface as I have connected them all into one portainer instance.

Now this ubuntu vm I have tried to use ballooning on because I only have 16gig of total RAM in the Nuc essential and I can’t get more (tried with a 32 stick but it wont boot). I can’t get ballooning to work though, I am guessing because Ubuntu uses all the ram not being used for buffer/cache.

on top of these 2 vms I am running the following in a LXC because if i mess around with the VM they goes down otherwise.

Uptime-Kuma, Adguard home and NGINX proxy manager and some NUT webpage thing that can give me a overview of my 2 UPS.

Except fort the NUT thing all of these are from the proxmox helper script library. I have considered setting up the rest of the current docker containers in LXC but 1. I dont really know how to do it? one for each or one for them all with portainer? Also I use tailscale in most of my containers or on the actually system. The folder management on ubuntu vm is so helpful for me for backup and restore moving around while i get things to wok, that I worry about moving it all into LXC and cli instead.


Ok my latest project Is getting a Proxmox backup sever up and running on one of my synology NAS in a VM using an NFS share as a source, And I have gotten ALL this to work except for one thing, I can’t get the API token thing to work currently, meaning I can’t add 2fa to my pbs account. But everything else works.

I think this is where I am for now, I have tried to figure it all out myself, using what ever I could find on the net and most of all using Chatgpt free version, the AI is many times very useful, but when its not its frustration because it goes around in circles with its answers.

If you get more time let me know your thoughts and ideas When proxmox is working i REALLY love the ease of managing the hardware and the backups.

again thank you so much for your time and feedback! Really appreciated it and I hope my long post is not too much.

/Thawnk

Wasn’t expecting to hear from you so soon lol.



If you want to test more with your 155h machine you could buy a USB drive or a USB to SATA adapter and cheap SSD just for screwing about with, I do that. Also for the transcoding thing in plex it might be a linux issue or a plex issue, might be fun just to test jellyfin, let me know how that works out if you do.



When you talk about the no virtualisation support, it should do as it’s a pcie device, it does not support the splitting between multiple vm’s. this technology is called SR-IOV or Nvidia calls it V-GPU. I could swear I’ve heard level1techs say its possible, but he might be talking about that’s it being worked on, I don’t really know don’t quote me (its gets me excited). Higher end enterprise ARC supports this feature and apparently the A770 can be re-flashed to do this but idk.



Not sure what you mean by ballooning it should just work, in the proxmox UI you set a minimum which you should set to be above the minimum RAM usage you see, then the max should be whatever you need. And yes Linux typically does cache stuff in RAM. As for it not booting with 32gb that makes sense as that CPU only supports up to 16gb. I think those series of CPU are great especially for the power draw but that’s an annoying limitation.



“ I have considered setting up the rest of the current docker containers in LXC but 1. I dont really know how to do it? one for each or one for them all with portainer?” an LXC container is just like any other linux computer you just follow the guide to setup docker as normal then go at it. The name can be confusing, they are not like docker and Kubernetes. Go have a fiddle.



“Also I use tailscale in most of my containers or on the actually system” by this I presume you mean “Also Should I use tailscale in most of my containers or on the actual system”, you can setup tailscale as a “subnet router” just once on any machine(or virtual machine/container) on the network and you should be able to access your whole home network using a client device. I haven’t had any experience with tailscale myself. FYI tailscale is actually built on wireguard.

Also good to see that you are using NFS ive had great issues with trying to get SMB shares mounted in anything other than a linux DE, no luck with CLI.



Sorry I cant help you with the backup server problem that is something I plan to do when I finally build a NAS that is worth really using.



Playing around is the best way to learn in my opinion, that's how I like to do it. Something you might enjoy doing is getting another cheap computer to put proxmox on as just a test server, I have one and its nice knowing when I’m screwing about, and I brick something/destroy the kernel it doesn’t matter.



Not gonna lie I was shocked by the huge response; I thought it was funny.



Some other things:

If you don’t already you should definitely go watch level1techs/level1linux and Craft Computing on youtube, you will love it.

Keep and eye on your storage usage aswell, if you run out of storage you will know quite quickly as your server will freeze, the couple times I have had this happen a hard reboot and then deleting things when it comes back online has worked.

I have big plans for my homelab.

It’s a good time to start homelabbing, the software has improved vastly since I started and when I first heard about this stuff.



Patrick

 

[LukasInCloud]

For transcoding with Plex, try using a cheap USB drive or SSD to avoid affecting your main setup. If Plex still doesn’t support the Arc iGPU, testing Jellyfin could be a good option, as it’s lighter and free.
Ballooning should work, but Linux caches data in RAM, so it might interfere with the process. Since your CPU only supports 16GB, that’s the limit for your setup.
Running Docker in an LXC container is straightforward—just set it up like you would on a regular Linux system, and Portainer can manage everything for you.
For Tailscale, set it up as a subnet router to access your whole network with a client device
The backup server API token issue might be a Proxmox API config problem, so check their forums or wiki for solutions. Lastly, using a test server is a great way to experiment without the risk of messing up your main system and have fun =)

 

[aabraham]

So first of all i am a COMPLEATE newbie when it comes to proxmox.

I am hoping to get it up running on my homelab on 2 machines. 1x core ultra 155h with 64gig ram and 2tb nvme. This one I want to run ubuntu server on with a desktop enverionment. Docker with portainer. The MAIN use for this nuc is my plex server which I would like to run with hw transcoding on the ARC igpu in the system.

The other machine is a NUC 14 essential n355 with 2tb nvme and 16gig ram.

This one i want to run a homeassistant os in a vm on and some docker containers that I want to run all the time (The 155h closes down at night together with my NAS servers)

is any of this even possible?

Again this is the first time dabbling with proxmox so compleatly noob here.

The vm container i tried to make on the 155h I can’t get the desktop to work and I am very unsure if i managed to get the pci pass though to work

on the n355 I can’t get proxmox to find the network card it seems to only find the wifi

I hope someone can help me or guide me into the right frame of mind for this

Thank you all in advance!

/Thrawn

Hi Thrawn, an idea that comes to mind for orchestrating an automated shutdown, would be the following: You write a script in a scripting language of your choice that checks, while it is running, for the current time and if the desired time is present, you issue a shutdown now command. As for a service that would keep this script running, I suggest SystemD. A SystemD service file could look something like this:

[Unit]
Description=A service to shutdown my server.
After=multi-user.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/path/to/your/script &
Type=simple
RemainAfterExit =yes

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Please not that the service file should be installed to the directory /lib/systemd/system.

 

[Thrawn_JL]

For transcoding with Plex, try using a cheap USB drive or SSD to avoid affecting your main setup. If Plex still doesn’t support the Arc iGPU, testing Jellyfin could be a good option, as it’s lighter and free.
Ballooning should work, but Linux caches data in RAM, so it might interfere with the process. Since your CPU only supports 16GB, that’s the limit for your setup.
Running Docker in an LXC container is straightforward—just set it up like you would on a regular Linux system, and Portainer can manage everything for you.
For Tailscale, set it up as a subnet router to access your whole network with a client device
The backup server API token issue might be a Proxmox API config problem, so check their forums or wiki for solutions. Lastly, using a test server is a great way to experiment without the risk of messing up your main system and have fun =)

First of all thank you so much for your answer!
Yes very nice idea my nuc is a tall one so I’m thinking actually an sata ssd and change boot order to play around with Proxmox..

Also plex DOES support my arc igpu when running ubuntu on bare metal I just can’t figure out how to get it to work though Proxmox.

I tried so many things and I have forgotten most, but tried making sure drivers was installed on proxmox but apparently i dont do it right because the only way I could passthough there card was via Raw device. Nothing showed up on pci devices.

I am stuck because I cant find a real guide to show me how to do it and with ChatGPT I run in circles. I’m guessing I need to get it to work on host first somehow but i’m not sure how and which drivers etc.

 

[Thrawn_JL]

Wasn’t expecting to hear from you so soon lol.



If you want to test more with your 155h machine you could buy a USB drive or a USB to SATA adapter and cheap SSD just for screwing about with, I do that. Also for the transcoding thing in plex it might be a linux issue or a plex issue, might be fun just to test jellyfin, let me know how that works out if you do.



When you talk about the no virtualisation support, it should do as it’s a pcie device, it does not support the splitting between multiple vm’s. this technology is called SR-IOV or Nvidia calls it V-GPU. I could swear I’ve heard level1techs say its possible, but he might be talking about that’s it being worked on, I don’t really know don’t quote me (its gets me excited). Higher end enterprise ARC supports this feature and apparently the A770 can be re-flashed to do this but idk.



Not sure what you mean by ballooning it should just work, in the proxmox UI you set a minimum which you should set to be above the minimum RAM usage you see, then the max should be whatever you need. And yes Linux typically does cache stuff in RAM. As for it not booting with 32gb that makes sense as that CPU only supports up to 16gb. I think those series of CPU are great especially for the power draw but that’s an annoying limitation.



“ I have considered setting up the rest of the current docker containers in LXC but 1. I dont really know how to do it? one for each or one for them all with portainer?” an LXC container is just like any other linux computer you just follow the guide to setup docker as normal then go at it. The name can be confusing, they are not like docker and Kubernetes. Go have a fiddle.



“Also I use tailscale in most of my containers or on the actually system” by this I presume you mean “Also Should I use tailscale in most of my containers or on the actual system”, you can setup tailscale as a “subnet router” just once on any machine(or virtual machine/container) on the network and you should be able to access your whole home network using a client device. I haven’t had any experience with tailscale myself. FYI tailscale is actually built on wireguard.

Also good to see that you are using NFS ive had great issues with trying to get SMB shares mounted in anything other than a linux DE, no luck with CLI.



Sorry I cant help you with the backup server problem that is something I plan to do when I finally build a NAS that is worth really using.



Playing around is the best way to learn in my opinion, that's how I like to do it. Something you might enjoy doing is getting another cheap computer to put proxmox on as just a test server, I have one and its nice knowing when I’m screwing about, and I brick something/destroy the kernel it doesn’t matter.



Not gonna lie I was shocked by the huge response; I thought it was funny.



Some other things:

If you don’t already you should definitely go watch level1techs/level1linux and Craft Computing on youtube, you will love it.

Keep and eye on your storage usage aswell, if you run out of storage you will know quite quickly as your server will freeze, the couple times I have had this happen a hard reboot and then deleting things when it comes back online has worked.

I have big plans for my homelab.

It’s a good time to start homelabbing, the software has improved vastly since I started and when I first heard about this stuff.



Patrick

Thanks you again for your answer Patrick I cant explain how much it means to not be all alone

Brilliant idea with the USB drive, but I have a tall nuc for my 155h så thinking a sata ssd and just boot sequence change?
For Plex. I know it can use my ARC igpu since it can do it in a docker container on an ubuntu machine running bare metal.
I am considering trying jellyfin on my n355 since it also has an IGPU (which I cant get working) and I dont need to move my entire database (could not get a second plex server up running without copying everything)

The virtualisation support I think is how I understand it and because I dont need to split up the GPU it should still work yes?

As for the docker containers. How do people normally do it? each app has a LXC with docker installed or? all of them in one LXC? I like the idea of individual lxc for the important stuff so I dont mess around with something and there is downtime on Mealie for instance (which is probably the app my wife use the most out side of plex)

About Tailscale, I am aware that its based on wireguard, but i’m not into what the similarities or differences are. Have newer touch wireguard just heard about it On many of my containers I had chatgpt help me install tailscale inside so they are shown in tailscale as their own machine with separate ips. On the ones I cant figure out how do do it I have also installed tailscale on the host (ubuntu) and can therefore use that tailscale ip with the apps port. Hoping that this together with Nginx proxy manager will give me a bit more security .

Yeah I use nfs because way back when I had different issues with SMB and NFS (when i finally got i working) had none of those issues.

The PBS thing is not a big problem as such. I have a strong password for it. Thanks though maybe at some point il l figure the API thing out

Yeah maybe at some point ill get another machine for a test server or maybe use an old laptop , Shame I cant use my raspberries pies for that. (Homeassistant used to run one of those).

As for learning from messing around with stuff that’s how it works for me too. But I have to admit that growing up with windows (since 3.11) Linux is like pushing a boulder up a very steep mountain…….. with a broken leg ………and the boulder rolling back all the time…….but I know the view at the top is rather amazing (as in very useful and efficient for what I need it for). I just do better with GUIs .

Thank you for your tips about youtube channels and storage! Very much appreciated Lvl1tech I already follow and craft I have watched from time to time.

Again thank you Patrick for all your help and time!

/Thrawn

 

[Thrawn_JL]

Hi Thrawn, an idea that comes to mind for orchestrating an automated shutdown, would be the following: You write a script in a scripting language of your choice that checks, while it is running, for the current time and if the desired time is present, you issue a shutdown now command. As for a service that would keep this script running, I suggest SystemD. A SystemD service file could look something like this:

[Unit]
Description=A service to shutdown my server.
After=multi-user.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/path/to/your/script &
Type=simple
RemainAfterExit =yes

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Please not that the service file should be installed to the directory /lib/systemd/system.

Thank you so much for your ideas and suggestion! I will look into this if I ever get my 155h up on proxmox

I am currently running ubuntu directly on it and I use my homeassistant to close it down via SSH from some automations.
Guessing I could do the same to proxmox with it pushing for some scripts to run?

 

[Thrawn_JL]

For my N355 to work with igpu I think i need kernel 6.13 ….so will have to wait.

Not sure about the 155h though

 

[patrickc204]

Thanks you again for your answer Patrick I cant explain how much it means to not be all alone

Brilliant idea with the USB drive, but I have a tall nuc for my 155h så thinking a sata ssd and just boot sequence change?
For Plex. I know it can use my ARC igpu since it can do it in a docker container on an ubuntu machine running bare metal.
I am considering trying jellyfin on my n355 since it also has an IGPU (which I cant get working) and I dont need to move my entire database (could not get a second plex server up running without copying everything)

The virtualisation support I think is how I understand it and because I dont need to split up the GPU it should still work yes?

As for the docker containers. How do people normally do it? each app has a LXC with docker installed or? all of them in one LXC? I like the idea of individual lxc for the important stuff so I dont mess around with something and there is downtime on Mealie for instance (which is probably the app my wife use the most out side of plex)

About Tailscale, I am aware that its based on wireguard, but i’m not into what the similarities or differences are. Have newer touch wireguard just heard about it On many of my containers I had chatgpt help me install tailscale inside so they are shown in tailscale as their own machine with separate ips. On the ones I cant figure out how do do it I have also installed tailscale on the host (ubuntu) and can therefore use that tailscale ip with the apps port. Hoping that this together with Nginx proxy manager will give me a bit more security .

Yeah I use nfs because way back when I had different issues with SMB and NFS (when i finally got i working) had none of those issues.

The PBS thing is not a big problem as such. I have a strong password for it. Thanks though maybe at some point il l figure the API thing out

Yeah maybe at some point ill get another machine for a test server or maybe use an old laptop , Shame I cant use my raspberries pies for that. (Homeassistant used to run one of those).

As for learning from messing around with stuff that’s how it works for me too. But I have to admit that growing up with windows (since 3.11) Linux is like pushing a boulder up a very steep mountain…….. with a broken leg ………and the boulder rolling back all the time…….but I know the view at the top is rather amazing (as in very useful and efficient for what I need it for). I just do better with GUIs .

Thank you for your tips about youtube channels and storage! Very much appreciated Lvl1tech I already follow and craft I have watched from time to time.

Again thank you Patrick for all your help and time!

/Thrawn

HEHEHE

No you would not need to split the GPU virtually if you're not trying to use it in more than 1 VM.

You really only need one LXC for the docker containers you want to run unless you really want to split them up, but to me that seems unnecessary if what your are doing is not public.

Damn you've been using windows since 3.11, I am much younger than that lol, first I used was XP and that was kinda old at that point with Windows 7 being out . Explains the GUI affinity lol.

Look forward to seeing what you get up to.

Patrick

 

[Thrawn_JL]

HEHEHE

No you would not need to split the GPU virtually if you're not trying to use it in more than 1 VM.

You really only need one LXC for the docker containers you want to run unless you really want to split them up, but to me that seems unnecessary if what your are doing is not public.

Damn you've been using windows since 3.11, I am much younger than that lol, first I used was XP and that was kinda old at that point with Windows 7 being out . Explains the GUI affinity lol.

Look forward to seeing what you get up to.

Patrick

Damn I really showed my age. Maybe my proxmox obsession is all some kind of midlife crisis? …then again always been tinkering with computers it etc