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Games on Whales - Stream multiple desktops and games from a single host (games-on-whales.github.io)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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After 3 years in the making I'm excited to announce the launch of Games on Whales, an innovative open-source project that revolutionizes virtual desktops and gaming. Our mission is to enable multiple users to stream different content from a single machine, with full HW acceleration and low latency.

With Games on Whales, you can:

Multi-user: Share a single remote host hardware with friends or colleagues, each streaming their own content (gaming, productivity, or anything else!)
Headless: Create virtual desktops on demand, with automatic resolution and FPS matching, without the need for a monitor or dummy plug
Advanced Input Support: Enjoy seamless control with mouse, keyboard, and joypads, including Gyro and Acceleration support (a first in Linux!)
Low latency: Uses the Moonlight protocol to stream content to a wide variety of supported clients.
Linux and Docker First: Our curated Docker images include popular applications like Steam, Firefox, Lutris, Retroarch, and more!
Fully Open Source: MIT licensed, and we welcome contributions from the community.

Interested in how this works under the hood? You can read more about it in our developer guide or deep dive into the code.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It looks they are just containers. No hardware or kernel emulation needed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That doesn't necessarily seem to be the case:

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure what you are referring to but in the chart Mesa and Kernel layers are shared between the running applications and Wolf in a single host, no VMs involved. One of the main reasons behind the project was to allow exactly this so that you wouldn't incur in the big penalty hit that incurs in GPU splitting

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ah okay, thank you heaps for clarifying :) That's awesome that you've been able to limit the overhead like that, I'm excited to test it out!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

No worries! Let me know how it goes, any feedback is highly appreciated!