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Releasing Wolf: Stream virtual desktops and games running in Docker (games-on-whales.github.io)

submitted 1 year ago by abeltramo to c/selfhosted

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Hello everyone! 👋

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.

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[–] abeltramo 1 points 1 year ago

I don't have a lot of experience in k8s but the basic principle should work; at the moment Wolf connects directly to the Docker socket in order to spin up and down apps on demand.

I guess there might be some issues in passing the required socket files to the pods, but the whole running model can be changed in theory. Instead of having a single Wolf process you have one front instance that deals with clients and the Moonlight protocol which in turns starts new Wolf pods with the app running that then feed audio and video stream directly to clients.

Definitely do-able, just needs some proper thinking and probably a proper REST API