Hardware Acceleration in Linux in Proxmox - eviltoast

I have a used Lenovo Thinkcenter 910 with a i5 7500T running Proxmox with Linux Mint in one VM and Adguard running in another. I’m just getting started so I am reading/searching for tons of answers still

I was hoping to host Jellyfin within Linux Mint. It works pretty well, but I did notice while watching a movie the CPU was pretty well pegged out. I wanted to enable hardware based acceleration but when I started reading setup guides to hope to understand what I was doing, I think I may have painted myself into a corner already.

I think I need to tell Proxmox to pass the hardware acceleration on to Linux, and then get Linux to, but also some of the things I have read make it sound like I need to have set up the VM from the beginning this way.

Am I trying to do this the hard way somehow? Does anyone have any suggestions on the best guide to follow for this?

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    8 months ago

    second to this, and to add on that while it’s gotten easier (and yes, even with this guide, it’s much easier than it used to be) back up your system. Hopefully nothing goes wrong, but you are messing with the kernel, make sure you’re mentally prepared to have to build it all from the ground up.