Creating the container
A lot of this is sourced from: https://geekistheway.com/2022/12/23/setting-up-intel-gpu-passthrough-on-proxmox-lxc-containers/
Hardware is a refurb ex-enterprise Lenovo M720S SFF PC, with a i3-9100 CPU.
On proxmox host, set up non-free repo, by adding non-free to each line:
apt install vainfo intel-gpu-tools intel-media-va-driver-non-freeThen, to check it’s working correctly, run vainfo:
root@smoltuck:~# vainfo
error: can't connect to X server!
libva info: VA-API version 1.17.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_17
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.17 (libva 2.12.0)
vainfo: Driver version: Intel iHD driver for Intel(R) Gen Graphics - 23.1.1 ()
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointVideoProc
VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointStats
VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointFEI
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointFEI
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
VAProfileVC1Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileJPEGBaseline : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileJPEGBaseline : VAEntrypointEncPicture
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointFEI
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
VAProfileVP8Version0_3 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVP8Version0_3 : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointFEI
VAProfileHEVCMain10 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain10 : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileVP9Profile0 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVP9Profile2 : VAEntrypointVLD
Now, make a Ubuntu 24.04 LXC container in proxmox. Once created, add the device passthrough:
The group ID’s need to match the video and render groups inside the LXC container:
root@jellyfin:~# cat /etc/group | grep ren
render:x:993:jellyfin
root@jellyfin:~# cat /etc/group | grep video
video:x:44:jellyfinInside the jellyfin lxc container, also apt install the required tools:
apt install vainfo intel-gpu-tools intel-media-va-driver-non-freeand confirm the groups of the devices:
root@jellyfin:~# ll /dev/dri/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 May 9 15:10 ./
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 500 May 9 15:10 ../
crw-rw---- 1 root video 226, 1 May 9 15:10 card1
crw-rw---- 1 root render 226, 128 May 9 15:10 renderD128and the video decode tools:
root@jellyfin:~# vainfo
error: can't connect to X server!
libva info: VA-API version 1.20.0
libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so
libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_20
libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.20 (libva 2.12.0)
vainfo: Driver version: Intel iHD driver for Intel(R) Gen Graphics - 24.1.0 ()
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointVideoProc
VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointStats
VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointFEI
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointFEI
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
VAProfileVC1Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileJPEGBaseline : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileJPEGBaseline : VAEntrypointEncPicture
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointFEI
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSliceLP
VAProfileVP8Version0_3 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVP8Version0_3 : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointFEI
VAProfileHEVCMain10 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain10 : VAEntrypointEncSlice
VAProfileVP9Profile0 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVP9Profile2 : VAEntrypointVLDNow you should be able to enable QSV video inside the jellyfin container.
To pass through the storage path:
root@smoltuck #/mediacontent[2024-05-11 10:51]
> pct set 100 -mp0 /mediacontent,mp=/mediacontent
2 replies on “Notes on setting up Jellyfin in LXC container on Proxmox”
I have setup jellyfin LXC using community scripts. Also setup qbitorrent using scripts. Now how do I pass through downloads folder from qbitorrent Lxc to jelly fin LXC?
The way I would try to do that is to create a downloads storage location on the Proxmox host. Then, pass the same path through to both the qbitorrent LXC, and configure it to save to that path. Then pass the path through to jellyfin, and configure it to have a library at that path. This should work.
The command to pass a path through to an LXC container is (for example):
`pct set 100 -mp0 /mediacontent,mp=/mediacontent`
This passes `/mediacontent` on the host through to the same path in the container ID 100.
Regards, Jay