Plex on ProxMox Tutorial WITH nVidia Hardware Encoding
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- Опубліковано 14 чер 2024
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Looking back, this should have likely been two videos, but its too late now. All in this one post, we're going to install Plex into a ProxMox virtual machine, configure ProxMox for PCIe passthrough, configure our virtual machine to allow the nVidia drivers to install, and setup hardware encoding in Plex.
But first... What am I drinking???
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Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
01:46 - Plex Install
06:20 - Plex Mount Network Share
09:22 - CPU Transcoding
11:19 - PCIe Passthrough - ProxMox settings
16:37 - PCIe Passthrough - VM Settings
22:24 - Hardware Transcode Results / Outro - Наука та технологія
Well that sorts my activity for this evening. Thank you for having a REAL walkthrough of this process where so many others miss the most common failures.
Nice work! Love NVENC for encoding/transcoding!
Oi hi tim good to see you here
@@frizzletits8511 can’t think of a better place!
The beer is cold, and so are the servers 😉
Hi Tim!
Nice to see you here!
Thanks for the excellent guide. Evidently two years later it's still gold!
I've been enjoying a similar setup with an old Quadro K4200 passed through! First time I've ever been ahead of your videos instead of following them!
Many thanks for the excellent video and links / resources. I had been worried about moving my hypervisor from TrueNAS to Proxmox but your guidance has got me up and running. There are a few steps that myself (as a total rookie) had to adapt or side-google but that's probably a good thing as the accomplishment is even more satisfying. Can't thank you enough. All the best from NZ!
I love these home server videos. Perfect for this platform.
Just had to say Thanks! I'm a bit new to Proxmox, but this got me up and running with my Plex VM transcoding via onboard graphics. The bonus for me was the editing of the fstab file to auto-mount my shared storage. I could mount the drive from the command prompt, but this was gone after reboot. Thanks a ton for the crazy helpful content!
Dude, thank you for this video. I had issues getting HW transcoding to work ages ago, and forgot all about the P400 in my server. Thanks to your help, I've got it working again - many thanks
LITERALLY was about to do just this, and you release a video for it. You the effin' MAN!
I know
@@CraftComputing Say, any particular reason you didn't use an LXC container? I'm reading that GPU passthrough will still work in an LXC container, except that you can share the GPU with multiple containers instead of "marrying" it to a single VM using passthrough.
@@CraftComputing Have you considered using LXC rather than a whole VM?
Jeff - At 5:22, you can usually just triple-click to select the whole line. Saves a bit of time instead of having to manually drag over the whole selection on a long command.
you do run into the issue of it picking up an unneeded space at the end of the line. Which may run you into some issues. When it comes to server reconfigs or anything infra related I like to take the time and make sure I'm using only what I need and spamming ctrl+c to make sure it's copied lol.
You made my day, thanks for the tutourial. My plex server is now encoding with my P2200! It only took my 5 days fixing issues... your tutourial saved my ass. Thank you so much!!!
Thank you for this video. It bridged the gap between what I needed and what I knew which enabled me to be successful.
Well done! Love your videos. Well put together and easy to follow. Keep up the great work!
Thanks for this wonderful Proxmox video card pass through tutorial. Stay well!
I have recently followed this tutorial and it is still valid and works so thank you very much for such a clear tutorial. I did have one issue where the nvidia drivers would not load and I had to disable secure boot in order to get them to load correctly but they are now working perfectly. If anyone else has the same problem then simply press 'Esc' on when the Proxmox logo appears to enter the vm bios and disable secure boot
Impressive difference after you installed the card, thanks
Thanks for this Jeff, finally have a machine dedicated to Proxmox that I can pass through an Nvidia card to. I've had this bookmarked since it came out and I'm really happy it worked for me! Keep up the great work!
Excellent guide! Thank you so much! This really helped. I had to turn off secure boot in the Plex VM to install the GPU Driver,
Perfect, thanks! This is one of my planned upgrades, so a nice tutorial should help.
Thank you! Just what i need. Havent got it done previously. Going to try again after watching ur vid. Thanks.
When passing through a multifunction I recomend you check the "All Fucntions" box when assigning the device. It will then show in the guest as one device with two or more functions (like it does on the host).
I said the same thing lol
Thanks for the great video! It helped me work through the details to pass my GPU through to my VM.
That walkthrough is gold.
Thank you for the info. have been working on this before, but now it works great
I just purchased a Quadro P400 to enable hardware encoding. My server is an old gaming PC based on an i5 3450. When I installed the P400, I couldn't add it to the Plex VM because the i5 3450 doesn't support VT-d. Luckily I found a cheap refurbished i5 3470 on Amazon. It now works like a charm.
Thanks for the guide!
After watching for 18 months I've joined the Proxmox crew! Working on a new homelab server now. Found my old P1000 and enough parts to build a new toy and duplicate this video.
Two servers should address my needs - Truenas - Video Minder - Plex - PiHole on first box.
If you want to take the plex server to the limit, increase the RAM allotment and create a RAM disk to be used for transcoding output temp disk, it makes a huge difference
every time i hear jeff talk about that lexar nvme drive at the beginning it makes me think he can be the price is right announcer
This video teaches a lot more than Plex. Thanks!
Considering the same setup, so your videos are really valuable - thank you for that!
Swear it wasn't the case last time I used plex
Thanks Jeff - glad you finally confirmed that VTd is possible on the Hyve Zeus. Based on your last video - I ordered the server and a pair of 2650s v2 procs. Wasn't going to use it for anything that would require PCI-E passthrough. But glad its there if I ever do.
You are a boss brother!
If this wasn't so niche I feel like you'd have millions of views.
Fantastic, thank you so much for the tutorial, very clear and helpful!
really enjoyed the instructions as I will soon be running a Plex VM on my proxmox server, not so sure about crossing fingers or magic buttons.
FYI for anyone having any mount issues. Not sure why, with my latest version of Ubuntu server to this date, I had to install samba, enable and then start it just before rebooting the vm to see the mount work correctly (at least back to my synology). Thanks for the video overall though! Really has helped me!
I'm so excited this worked! I watched the earlier video and was bummed for you. Lol
you made this a lot easier for me to do. thanks dood!
Coincidentally, I was doing this 3 days ago. I made VM, fiddled with proxmox to get passthrough working, and then installed Plex in the VM. But just then I've noticed that I need to have PlexPass in order to use encoding. And since I really don't want to pay for watching _absolutely 100% purchased and legally owned_ movies, I've scrapped Plex. In search for an alternative, I've found Jellyfin. It's opensource, totally free, UI looks 100x better (although sometimes you need to click twice on something), it isn't bloated with PlexTV crap and - it uses ffmpeg for encoding. That means you just basically install Jellyfin, nvidia drivers, ffmpeg, and change the default encoder in Jellyfin setting to ffmpeg. No need to register, purchase or subscribe to anything. It's excellent alternative to Plex, with every function that Plex have - but for free.
I’ve followed the channel for a good while now, and Im finally putting together what I consider to be my first “real” server, being a 3700x and 64 gigs of ram with a passed through Nvidia gpu. Hopefully I can utilize this well enough without breaking everything.
Thank you, this as a real walkthrough. Instead of reading a guide and possible making a mistake.
New fan and this guide worked perfectly. Thank you so much!
New fan? Care to share?
Love your channel. Thanks for all you do.
Fantastic tutorial Jeff, and nothing went wrong too! How rare 🤣
I know, right? 😂😂😭
Great flavor on the video. Also you are so right on the beer this year. I would say it has more zesty note over the nutty acid from 2018 and 2019. I think the beer was good pairing with the video. The video like the beer requires some understanding to really be enjoyed.
I literally just spent the last two days figuring this shit out. My brain still hurts.
I found this video very helpful, even though I'm not using ProxMox.
I've now got Hardware Encoding working with my Quadro P600 and Plex on Ubuntu Server 20.04
Thanks
I have done this using Proxmox, Ubuntu Server VM, then Plex running in a Docker container, and with MakeMKV in another Docker container for automated ripping.
Thanks man! Worked like a charm
first: a real good guide to do this!!!!!
second: my reccomendations to improve this guide (i am doing the same, but based on vmware free esxi)
in /etc/fstab: add ",_netdev" after the password to ensure that the CIFS filesystem gets mounted after the network is full loaded.
also a good improvement: add a dependency in systemd that the share should be mounted before plex starts. But this is definitly optional: currently plex handles a not accessible library very well!
Excellent video As Always you're Jeff/Geoff Now realized that some hardware upgrades are wanted.
finally figured it out I needed to sh command in front of the driver to install- happy days ;)
It amazes me that so many people are concerned for your sobriety or lack of. And they have the balls to ask. I think it would be obvious. The keyboard is so powerful and protective!
personally I don't understand the concern...he's not driving/flying/operating heavy equipment or doing anything life-critical, so...who gives a damn? Just a guy rambling in front of a camera while playing with his own stuff.
Thanks a lot, works like a charme. On Debian 10, you have also install "apt install linux-headers-$(uname -r) dkms build-essential" , to run the nvidia installer. Greetings from Germany
Thank You again for awesome guide mate.
Youre making me want to give Proxmox another chance, cool video!
Comment to the creator of this channel thank you for the insightful instructions on GPU passthrough this has been driving me crazy watching all these tutorials which don't work. your
instructions truly made difference looking forward to more creative content and keep up the good work your doing for everyone.
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.
the cpu: host,hidden=1 was the final step in getting my hw encoding to work on my setup. I originally thought it was due to my use of an AMD cpu without the intel extensions. This video finally got the last piece of the puzzle working.
Thank a lot man, you just save my day many, many times :D
I bought the same server with the same components since I saw the video in which you showed it, now I'm going to try to put a graphics card on it and see if it works!
Great work. Thanks, easy and straight forward)
Awesome video. Thanks a lot!
Hey Jeff, thanks for the tutorials, this one will be a great help over the holidays when I set up proxmox for the first time
Question, I have a nvidia gpu that I was hoping to use for both plex and blueiris. I'm assuming the only way would be to run a Windows vm and have both applications running in there ( I.e. can't share / pass through to multiple vms)?
Thanks Jeff. It's like finishing Donkey Kong. Finally. Cheers,
great video. I recently bought a dell r620 for the purpose of running Plex and pfSense on it and actually couldn't find a tutorial that explained how to properly set up Proxmox for PCI-e pass-through. I'll see if i can get it working when i have a bit more time.
~EM
I have a similar setup, just with VMware instead of Proxmox. Works great! Running a P600.
Excellent as usual! Cheers!
Thank you for a very good guide.
Small room for improvement:
It would be worth mentioning that your CPU & Motherboard has to support IOMMU. Just like you covered what graphics cards support encoding/decoding what codec.
I followed this guide only to find out in the last step that my Motherboard does not support IOMMU.
Yeah this turns out to be kind of important when you can't figure out why the GPU won't passthrough!
One day you will deploy a bind server on any of your servers so you can forget about remembering all the ips... good video, thanks!!!
Awesome vid, as usual. How about doing this with a LXC container?
This video is amazing! I was having the hardest time till I came and saw this video. My biggest mistake was I was trying to push the GPU thu proxmox, thru the ubuntuVM and into a docker container.. ya, bad idea. once I moved plex from docker and onto the host ubuntu VM like he did in the video.
BAM! transcoding!
Thanks for sharing this info. Will try it on my Proxmox. Just another question though: what't the type of keyboard you're using in this video ?
Thank you for a great and as always, honest tutorial. I was able to follow your steps and pass my NVIDIA GTX 1050Ti through to my FreeBSD VM that contains my Plex server. There was a noticeable performance increase afterwards but when transcoding 4K video to 1080P, I still see about 40% of CPU utilization. The VM is KVM/QEMU based on Manjaro linux (not Proxmox), and assigned 10 CPU cores and 16 GB RAM. The media folder is cifs mount from a NAS on the same LAN. I get a similar output to yours when I issue the 'nvidia-smi' command on the VM. Is this much CPU utilization expected? How can I ensure that the GPU is fully utilized during a transcoding operation?
Awesome video. It helped me a lot.
I do have a question tho.
Have you ever set up 2 p400s through proxmox? My current set up is 2 of them, 1 assigned to its own vm. I'm having issues with them being detected however. Would much change in the pve setup for adding in a second card?
Hi, thanks for your great video!
nice video, thanks for this info. have a nice week.
Hey Jeff, great vid thanks. I'm also using the P400 and find it works well. I think I remember you showing two p1000s as well and just wondered why you didn't use one of those in your plex server instead?
This is a great tutorial, I'm looking forward to trying this out. However, I'm curious is there a way to run the GPU with a fan curve? I'm setting this up in an old workstation with a modified GPU (huge heatsink) that barely needs any fan assistance.
Anyone having the issue where if the VM reboots the NVIDIA drivers don't load? I have to reinstall the drivers each time.
Awesome tutorial! I am doing Plex via Docker in Unraid along with Dockers for a VPN protected (PIA) Deluge client, Sonarr, Radarr, Tautulli, and DuckDNS/Nginx Proxy Manager for remote web access. I tried out Proxmox first but it just seemed a little too much for a simple NAS and media sharing setup.
Love your videos!!
Nice tutorial. I have an i7 3770k with 16gb RAM running win 10 as plex and file server. I'm not running Linux nor virtualization as I'm no comfortable with it yet. But your video sounds so easy that I will take a shot shot. I'm upgrading to a ryzen 5 3400g build, I'm feeling the pain of transferring everything from one server to another. If plex was already virtualized ir would be as simple as coping the image from one to another.
Very good, useful video!
wow this means i can now connect my 2nd AMD GPU in linux and play games on windows vm on my 2nd monitor. brilliant
So funny, I've been interested in this implementation. I recently just saw a video about this but using a Proxmox Container by SeverArt
Wow !!! I'm impressed !
So um, when are you going to make a Part 8 for "Trying out SR-IOV - Cloud Gaming Server Part 7",
since you've mistakenly assigned 1/16th of the GPU chip or 1/32th of GPU total power in that video?
I love the RAM reef :D
Thinking of sandboxing Pelx, nice video. What are your thoughts on RAM Disk for transcode temp folder, yes/no, size?
Great work!
I had a couple beers while watching this tutorial.I need to learn these stuff.At the moment i am running 2u server hosting 2 x L5640 6c/12t cpu's.I mainly use it as a storage server.She has 3 raid setups and i doubt i can get an x16 riser card as this servers pretty old.so any encoding i want to do is cpu based.
I set mine up (about 1.5 years ago) using a linux container (LXC) on proxmox and shared the NVIDIA GPU with the LXC. It was much easier and less of a hassle than doing PCIe passthrough, though that's pretty easy these days if your hardware cooperates well enough. It's allowed some interesting flexibility, like being able to swap GPUs if you want to switch to something else since it seems to be tied to the PCIe slot and not to the device ID, which can change if you add or remove PCIe devices. Happy to provide more info if anyone is interested.
How did you pull that off, might I ask? nvidia-smi seems to work inside the lxc container, passed through properly. But then Plex will never (hw) transcode, all via CPU
Perfect, Thanks.
I like the memory wreath
Great video, thank you very much!
Even helped me understand transcoding as a function!
So I have read that you can't get Nvidia to decode is this still the case or will it encode and decode with current drivers and plex. Love the video thanks! New subscriber and love the content so far.
very complete problem solving
Very good video very good explanation I liked it very much ....but I have one question for you, may I have the same setup but instead to run the Plex server in my own server could I use the Google Cloud platform? Will be the same or similar performance? or Plex needs to send the movie to the host(Google Cloud Platform) and then stream again to my home tv?
I used to run plex in a VM just like you set it up in this video but found FAR superior performance when running it in an LXC container, still get full hardware support for my quandro p2000. It took some doing but the benefits are numerous.
was it a privileged container?
@@dimitristsoutsouras2712 No, unprivileged. From what I understand that the only way hardware support will function currently.
Awesome. Great video. Something to do over the Xmas holidays. Can 2 or more vm's share one physical card? Or is it 1 card per vm?
One card per VM unfortunately.
On your production instance are you mounting a share for the Plex DB?
I'm slowly, multiplexing too many homelab projects burns time context switching :-(, attempting to stand up Plex/Jellyfin in a high availability fashion. I've been tempted to go Jellyfin/Kubernetes on some Jetsons but I'd also be interested in Plex on a Proxmox cluster if I could nail down a working incantation to stand up plex containerized and not have the Plex DB sh*t the bed during container migration. Or maybe a hybrid route with mundane plex instances farming out the transcodes ala kube-plex.... Add deciding which path to fumble down to the list of reasons completing projects seems glacial.