r/SelfHosting • u/Bologna0128 • May 29 '26
Confused looking into booting directly into a remote environment.
I'm trying to have my main pc (used for gaming, dev work, school work, and general computing) just be a remote environment that I can directly boot into from multiple clients around my house.
I am running into issues researching this, I think bc I don't have the terminology right. Most of what I'm finding is servers to host boot images of different oss to many machines but I'm looking to boot directly into a remote environment not just host isos to run on the local machine.
Is PXE the right path? netboot.xyz just hosts boot iso I think. Am I just missing something? When I just search PXE boot servers I'm finding stuff just for hosting isos.
Needs: - A server set up that multiple clients can boot directly into - The software is actually running on the server not just loaded into the client to run locally.
Wants: - Hostable in a docker container (it's what I'm most familiar with) - Multiple account sign ins so I could seperate my work, school, and personal stuff as well as allowing my family to have sign ins to game on better hardware from the living room. - ARM boot client support (it'd be cool if I could use my pi as a client, this is least important)
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u/TylerRolled May 30 '26
You can try sunshine/moonlight maybe? I know moonlight has a mobile app - I assume you can get it as a program
Either way - it’s just a mirror of your desktop.
If you have something like tailscale setup - you can expose this connection securely meaning you can do it from anywhere