Recently I’m trying to create a Bazzite VM inside my Unraid server. I successfully set up GPU passthrough and everything runs perfectly.
However I want to save my Steam library inside my host machine’s storage so that it can be managed by Unraid. I set up a virtiofs share and mounted in /mnt/storage path of the Bazzite VM. But inside Steam when I tried adding secondary drive to the mount point, nothing happend. Is it a limitation of Steam or something I did wrong?
I am not sure I understand this part. What do you mean you added it inside Steam?
Did you make your user account the owner of that directory?
When it fails like that, it is often a permission issue.
I figured it out. Turns out you need to make sure the directory is completely empty, otherwise Steam will silently fail to add new library.
After some testing, I found out some game just refuse to launch when installed inside a virtiofs share.
So for game libiary it’s better off creating a standalone virtual disk or passthrough a phisical disk.
Yea, your solution is right, With Virtiofs, there are also SELinux considerations.
Note: Performance on VirtioFS is FAR slower than native mounts.
