Swainstation Migration Guide

BIOS (F2 on POST):

Enable SVM Mode (AMD virtualization / IOMMU)

Set GPU Mode → Discrete (disables Optimus)

Flash + install Proxmox VE 8.x ISO to NVMe:

Hostname: swainstation-backend  |  IP: 10.0.0.228  |  Gateway: 10.0.0.1

SSH in:

ssh root@10.0.0.228

apt update && apt install -y pve-headers
apt install -y nvidia-driver nvidia-smi
reboot

After reboot — verify and note device major numbers (needed for LXC config):

nvidia-smi
ls -la /dev/nvidia*
cat /proc/devices | grep nvidia

pveam update
pveam download local ubuntu-24.04-standard_*.tar.zst

pct create 100 local:vztmpl/ubuntu-24.04-standard_*.tar.zst \
  --hostname dumb-stack \
  --memory 8192 \
  --cores 6 \
  --rootfs local-lvm:60 \
  --net0 name=eth0,bridge=vmbr0,ip=dhcp \
  --unprivileged 0 \
  --features nesting=1,fuse=1

Add to /etc/pve/lxc/100.conf — replace 507 with actual nvidia-uvm major from Phase 2:

lxc.cgroup2.devices.allow: c 195:* rwm
lxc.cgroup2.devices.allow: c 507:* rwm
lxc.mount.entry: /dev/nvidia0 dev/nvidia0 none bind,optional,create=file
lxc.mount.entry: /dev/nvidiactl dev/nvidiactl none bind,optional,create=file
lxc.mount.entry: /dev/nvidia-uvm dev/nvidia-uvm none bind,optional,create=file
lxc.mount.entry: /dev/nvidia-uvm-tools dev/nvidia-uvm-tools none bind,optional,create=file
lxc.mount.entry: /dev/dri dev/dri none bind,optional,create=dir

pct start 100

pct enter 100

# Docker
apt update && apt install -y curl ca-certificates rsync fuse3
curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com | sh

# nvidia-container-toolkit
curl -fsSL https://nvidia.github.io/libnvidia-container/gpgkey \
  | gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/nvidia-container-toolkit-keyring.gpg
curl -s -L https://nvidia.github.io/libnvidia-container/stable/deb/nvidia-container-toolkit.list \
  | sed 's#deb https://#deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/nvidia-container-toolkit-keyring.gpg] https://#g' \
  | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nvidia-container-toolkit.list
apt update && apt install -y nvidia-container-toolkit
nvidia-ctk runtime configure --runtime=docker
systemctl restart docker

# Verify
docker run --rm --runtime=nvidia --gpus all ubuntu nvidia-smi

# Create user matching i5 PUID
useradd -u 1000 -m jasper

rsync -av /home/jasper/docker/DUMB/       jasper@10.0.0.228:/home/jasper/docker/DUMB/
rsync -av /home/jasper/docker/jellyseerr/ jasper@10.0.0.228:/home/jasper/docker/jellyseerr/
rsync -av /home/jasper/docker/caddy/      jasper@10.0.0.228:/home/jasper/docker/caddy/
rsync -av /home/jasper/docker/homepage/   jasper@10.0.0.228:/home/jasper/docker/homepage/
rsync -av /home/jasper/docker/docker-compose.yml jasper@10.0.0.228:/home/jasper/docker/

docker-compose.yml

dumb_config.json — jellyfin env block

Remove: LIBVA_DRIVERS_PATH and LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME: iHD

Keep: JELLYFIN_FFMPEG: /usr/lib/jellyfin-ffmpeg/ffmpeg

homepage/config/services.yaml — update these hrefs to 10.0.0.228:

Caddyfile — no changes needed (uses Docker service names, not IPs).

CPU governor:

cat > /etc/systemd/system/cpu-performance.service << 'EOF'
[Unit]
Description=Set CPU governor to performance
After=multi-user.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/bin/bash -c 'echo performance | tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor'
RemainAfterExit=yes

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF
systemctl enable --now cpu-performance.service

DNS (point to Pi-hole on i5):

echo "DNSStubListener=no" >> /etc/systemd/resolved.conf
systemctl restart systemd-resolved

printf "nameserver 10.0.0.227\nnameserver 75.75.75.75\n" > /etc/resolv.conf
chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf

cd /home/jasper/docker && docker compose up -d

Verify before cutover:

• http://10.0.0.228:8096 — Jellyfin loads
• http://10.0.0.228:8989 — Sonarr loads
• http://10.0.0.228:3001 — Homepage loads
• Jellyfin Admin → Playback → Hardware Acceleration → set to NVENC
• Play HEVC file — check DUMB/data/jellyfin/log/FFmpeg.*.log for h264_nvenc

Router port forwarding (xFi app):

Update jmp-autoconnect.sh on i5 — change Jellyfin backend URL:

# /home/jasper/jmp-autoconnect.sh
# change:  http://10.0.0.227:8096/web/index.html
# to:      http://10.0.0.228:8096/web/index.html

Stop migrated services on i5:

cd /home/jasper/docker
docker compose stop DUMB jellyseerr caddy homepage

DuckDNS — leave script on i5. It updates to the house's public IP which hasn't changed.

• Remove DUMB, jellyseerr, caddy, homepage from i5 docker-compose.yml (or just leave stopped)
• Pi-hole — keep running, no changes
• Crafty — keep running, no changes
• JMP, xorg, acestream — keep running, no changes
• jmp-restart-server — keep running, no changes