[GH-ISSUE #59] Test out xvfb failover when no GPU is available #20

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opened 2026-10-15 12:47:58 +00:00 by bsakaguchi · 1 comment

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2026-10-15 12:47:58 +00:00

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Originally created by @ABeltramo on GitHub (Nov 25, 2021).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/games-on-whales/gow/issues/59

From a report on the Discord channel it might be that Xorg doesn't start when no GPU is available (to be tested).

In such cases, we could failover to xvfb. We'll loose hw acceleration but maybe we can still have a remote desktop with Sunshine? With a powerful enough CPU we could possibly play some RetroArch games or even just stream Firefox and other GUI apps without changing the containers.

EDIT: Maybe it's not possible, see: https://github.com/loki-47-6F-64/sunshine/issues/47

Or maybe should we jump to wayland instead? Checkout sway headless example container

see also this issue on Sunshine

Originally created by @ABeltramo on GitHub (Nov 25, 2021). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/games-on-whales/gow/issues/59 From a report on the Discord channel it might be that Xorg doesn't start when no GPU is available (to be tested). In such cases, we could failover to xvfb. We'll loose hw acceleration but maybe we can still have a remote desktop with Sunshine? With a powerful enough CPU we could possibly play some RetroArch games or even just stream Firefox and other GUI apps without changing the containers. EDIT: Maybe it's not possible, see: https://github.com/loki-47-6F-64/sunshine/issues/47 Or maybe should we jump to wayland instead? Checkout `sway headless` [example container](https://github.com/bbusse/swayvnc-firefox) [see also this issue on Sunshine](https://github.com/loki-47-6F-64/sunshine/issues/274)

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2026-10-15 12:48:01 +00:00

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@ABeltramo commented on GitHub (Jun 14, 2024):

We ended up writing our own custom comp in Wolf!

@ABeltramo commented on GitHub (Jun 14, 2024): We ended up writing our own custom comp in [Wolf](https://github.com/games-on-whales/wolf)!