TENDRIL
Stations
Hardware
Media
Network
System
Fleet
◆ DEMO
localhost.localdomain ·
192.168.10.22
Create a gaming station
Station name
Placement
This node — full options (specific GPU / vGPU, USB, seats)
aurora
nebula
quasar
On another node a whole free GPU is auto-assigned; local-only options (specific GPU/vGPU, USB, seats, disk path, ISO) don't apply.
Base image (clone a ready-to-play station instantly)
None — install the OS fresh
windows11-base (18.4 GB)
bazzite-gaming (12.1 GB)
Pick a saved image to clone it (copy-on-write, instant) — the OS and install options come from the image. Leave as None to install fresh from media below.
Guest OS
Windows 11
SteamOS (Bazzite)
GPU
None — headless / attach later
Pick a whole GPU for full passthrough, or a vGPU profile to hand a station one slice of a shared GPU (requires an mdev-capable driver, e.g. NVIDIA vGPU). The
recommended
vGPU profile is the gaming sweet spot for your card — ≥4 GB per station while splitting the card as far as it sensibly goes. SR-IOV virtual functions appear here as whole GPUs once enabled on the Hardware page.
Username
Password
Seat (a saved group of USB devices — manage under Hardware)
None
Living room (2 devices)
Office (2 devices)
Or pick individual USB devices (keyboard, mouse, controller)
QEMU USB Tablet
(0627:0001)
You can also add or remove these after the station is created.
Advanced options
Install unattended (hands-off)
On by default — installs the guest OS without prompts using the account above. Uncheck for a manual install.
Native-hardware overlay (anti-cheat; may violate ToS)
Low-latency (pin CPU cores + hugepages)
Pins this station's vCPUs to dedicated host cores so gaming frame-times don't jitter. Skips pinning automatically if the host is too small.
Start now (begins the install immediately)
Install Steam
Sunshine — stream to Moonlight
Recommended for a seatless station — otherwise there's no low-latency way to see it. Installs on Windows, enables Bazzite's on Linux.
Install Discord
Moonlight — receive streams
Installs the Moonlight client so this station can also play another station's games over the LAN (the receiver to Sunshine's host).
Memory (MiB)
Auto: (host RAM − ~2 GiB host reserve) ÷ GPUs
vCPUs
Auto: (host threads − 1) ÷ GPUs
Disk size (GiB)
Auto: (free disk − ~20 GiB) ÷ GPUs
Persistent data volume (GiB)
0 = none. A separate disk for games/saves that survives OS reinstalls and GPU re-splits.
Disk image path
Install ISO (blank = the OS default)
virtio-win ISO (Windows; blank = default)
Computer name / hostname
Create station
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