How to run sunshine on a headless server over ssh? #47
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If use Linux, you can configure virtual display. |
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I'm trying to use Xvfb like so: Moonlight connects and looks good, but mouse and keyboard just aren't working for mystery reasons. Any ideas? |
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Sunshine uses uinput to emulate mouse and keyboard. Do you have it enabled? If you plug in mouse and/or keyboard directly in your pc, do those work? |
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After looking around for some time, it seems that Xvfb just doesn't support... input devices? Seems like it's very much the wrong tool for this job. Which is a shame because it otherwise "just worked" as a systemd user service, and also "just worked" in allowing me to choose a 3:2 resolution (for my Surface as a moonlight client). I've moved on to using the X dummy monitor method, but it's much less elegant. Have to set up startx on a user's automatic login, as opposed to a service. Defining modelines for the X dummy display simply does not work for most 3:2 resolutions. xrandr fails to add the resolutions with cryptic errors for which there are no relevant solutions known online. The wonders of linux... |
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Did you find a way to solve this? I am also in the same situation. BTW, I am also tried to install it with a headless ubuntu machine. However, I don't have GPU. Is there any way to use sunshine without GPU? |
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I have no solutions for Xvfb, but if someone else does I'd love to hear it. |
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Maybe you can try this Instead direct start sunshine |
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I have a xorg-video-dummy installed and running: However sunshine is exiting after printing I tried solution mentioned above:
Sunshine starts and I able to connect to it via Moonlight, however I see a black screen with cross icon X. Same display (:0) is working fine with Anydesk. Logs: Do you have an idea what I can do and what's wrong with my setup? And crash afterwards. EDIT. figured out that in case of xfvb I need to run something on DISPLAY:99 in order to not see black screen. However I still can't control remote via mouse and keyboard and still see X icon as mentioned above. So xfvb is not an option in my case. |
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I managed to add a dummy display in software to get it working with GPU acceleration on a server (well, someone else did and I copy/pasted the config files), I can tell you more if anyone is interested |
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I also got it working, although I cannot recommend my solution. After some digging, I learned that intel's linux driver just includes a GPU accelerated virtual display output called VIRTUAL1. Rather than struggling to learn the arcane mysteries of xorg conf, I initialize the display with xrandr via xrandr --newmode "1500x1000_60.00" 102.49 1500 1548 1580 1660 1000 1003 1013 1029 +hsync -vsync
xrandr --addmode VIRTUAL1 "1500x1000_60.00"
xrandr --output VIRTUAL1 --mode "1500x1000_60.00"Sunshine will see this and it will just work. Of course, @Heath123 should share the solution, why would you dangle that with no details? 😩 |
I wasn't sure if anyone was still interested and finding everything I used takes time. Anyway, this might only work on Nvidia, but I'll try to find what I used |
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I used the EDID file from https://superuser.com/a/1278264 and the xorg config is based on https://gist.github.com/ArrEssJay/0e126a56b0ee9f23551a98fb258414c6 |
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I haven't tried it but maybe you could use https://github.com/akatrevorjay/edid-generator |
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Is there any working solution for this and an iGPU? (i.e sunshine on a headless server/onboard iGPU) |
RetroArcher doesn't currently work on linux... |
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@Heath123 Would you be so kind to explain a little bit more how you managed to get it working with the resources you shared? I tried using the EDID and adapting the xorg.conf file, but to no avail. I'm running a Ubuntu VM on GCP and struggling to get sunshine to work. I just can't get a virtual monitor setup when connected through SSH / TTY, only if I RDP / VN / Chrome Remote to it and start the service, but then, when launching through Moonlight, I lose all mouse and keyboard inputs (even after manually adding the uinput permissions. |
I can't remember much about it now but I think something about it was specific to Nvidia GPUs, does the VM have one? |
Yes, it does have a Tesla T4. Drivers are installed. I can't generate an EDID file from Nvidia panel as it won't show any monitors connected, so I used the .txt approach mentioned in that first link of yours https://superuser.com/questions/1278256/x-server-on-nvidia-card-with-no-screen/1278264#1278264 |
If it's slow did you try this |
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I was able to run sunshine on a headless server with nvidia GPU with the fix presented here: |
on nvidia am on intel and just buyed a dummy plug |
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So I was finally able to start and run Sunshine 0.20.0 on a Ubuntu 20.04 system via SSH. Posting here in case anyone is still interested. The procedure is pretty long so I attached it as a text file. UPDATE: Looks like despite triple checking this yesterday I still missed a step :( (setting the DISPLAY variable in your shell before you try to bring up Sunshine). I've updated the steps and added a few more clarification notes; repost is below. |
I followed your instructions on Ubuntu 22.04 but couldn't get the x server to run. It would just exit out immediately after I press enter. Try running sunshine.appimage but get Connection refused error. Any ideas on what I'm missing? |
The Xorg startup should generate 2 log files; the first is whatever path you gave for the -logfile option and the second is the standard stream log created by the redirection (in my example command I had that path represented by [STD_OUT_LOG]). You'll need to look at those to see what error is causing your X-server to fail out. |
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I made it work in a headless VM server without a monitor or mouse attached (without audio yet, havent looked into that). The mouse wouldn't come through, but in wayland KDE setting here is the configuration for nixOS I used: hardware.opengl.enable = true;
hardware.opengl.driSupport = true;
nixpkgs.config.pulseaudio = true; # (need to fix audio)
# Use this to force KDE to draw the cursor (slow)
# you should instead tell moonlight (client) to use
# local cursor with Ctrl+Alt+Shift+M and Ctrl+Alt+Shift+C
# (https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-docs/wiki/Setup-Guide#keyboardmousegamepad-input-options)
environment.sessionVariables = rec {
#KWIN_FORCE_SW_CURSOR="1";
};
services = {
xserver = {
displayManager.startx.enable = true;
enable = true; # X11 because setting up Wayland is more complicated than it is worth for me.
};
desktopManager.plasma6.enable = true;
displayManager = {
#autoLogin.enable = true;
#autoLogin.user = config.mySystem.user;
sddm.enable = true;
defaultSession = lib.mkForce "plasma";
};
};
services.xserver.xkb.layout = "br,pt";
#console.keyMap = lib.mkOverride 1009 "pt";
services.xserver.xkb.options = "eurosign:e,caps:escape";
services.avahi.enable = true;
services.avahi.publish.enable = true;
services.avahi.publish.userServices = true;
services.sunshine = {
enable = true;
autoStart = true;
capSysAdmin = true;
openFirewall = true;
};
networking.firewall = {
enable = true;
allowedTCPPorts = [ 47984 47989 47990 48010 ];
allowedUDPPortRanges = [
{ from = 47998; to = 48000; }
{ from = 8000; to = 8010; }
];
};
environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
sunshine
];
security.wrappers.sunshine = {
owner = "root";
group = "root";
#capabilities = "cap_sys_admin+p";
#capabilities = "cap_sys_admin+ep";
source = "${pkgs.sunshine}/bin/sunshine";
};
systemd.user.services.sunshine =
{
wantedBy = [ "graphical-session.target" ];
serviceConfig = {
AmbientCapabilities = "CAP_SYS_ADMIN";
};
};
# Requires to simulate input
boot.kernelModules = [ "uinput" ];
services.udev.extraRules = ''
KERNEL=="uinput", SUBSYSTEM=="misc", OPTIONS+="static_node=uinput", TAG+="uaccess"
'';In the case of a VM without a pass-through GPU, using the |
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I think the common solution for this problem is not error prone, since it relies on the X Server which is slowly phased out of Ubuntu. I had a look into how we could fake the connected display at a different level. Turns out, there is a possibility. There is the edid file preparation
initramfs modification
kernel parameters
debug and caution
references:
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How to run sunshine on a server without a monitor?
The server has a GPU but no monitor.
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