Thomas Kraft
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Setting up karma to render on a extra PC April 12, 2026, 10:52 p.m.
Can do a big thumbs up for HQueue. I used Google Gemini to help set it up, plus a lot of old fashioned googling. There's a great video on YouTube about it too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=838z9v17ThI [www.youtube.com]
My use case is I have four machines: one being a workstation running Linux (CachyOS), a Win 11 desktop, an Ubuntu Server, and an Ubuntu Server VM on my 64 core Threadripper running Proxmox.
The Ubuntu VM hosts the HQ Server and is a client with GPU pass thru. Files are mapped cross platform so my Windows machine picks up just fine from my Linux jobs. They all render and simulate concurrently with no issues.
That being said, there are a lot of quirks to getting it working. I basically did all of this while also learning Linux and there were times it was a PAIN. Be prepared to spend a weekend or two to really get it figured out.
Like I said, Gemini (and sometimes Claude, though I found more success with Gemini) is very helpful in finding answers to random issues, like when you get an error in your HQueue log, and the AI helps you find out which part of Linux is borked, etc.
All that to say: I think HQueue is a solid choice, if not the best choice, for running a Houdini-only job management system. We use Deadline at the studio I'm at and it's really great for a lot of things, but I think it's hugely overkill for a two machine environment where Houdini is the only thing you'll be using it for.
My use case is I have four machines: one being a workstation running Linux (CachyOS), a Win 11 desktop, an Ubuntu Server, and an Ubuntu Server VM on my 64 core Threadripper running Proxmox.
The Ubuntu VM hosts the HQ Server and is a client with GPU pass thru. Files are mapped cross platform so my Windows machine picks up just fine from my Linux jobs. They all render and simulate concurrently with no issues.
That being said, there are a lot of quirks to getting it working. I basically did all of this while also learning Linux and there were times it was a PAIN. Be prepared to spend a weekend or two to really get it figured out.
Like I said, Gemini (and sometimes Claude, though I found more success with Gemini) is very helpful in finding answers to random issues, like when you get an error in your HQueue log, and the AI helps you find out which part of Linux is borked, etc.
All that to say: I think HQueue is a solid choice, if not the best choice, for running a Houdini-only job management system. We use Deadline at the studio I'm at and it's really great for a lot of things, but I think it's hugely overkill for a two machine environment where Houdini is the only thing you'll be using it for.
Houdini with Linux and Wayland March 27, 2026, 8:46 a.m.
TheNotepadShowtommygdawgI had to go back to 580.126.20... the newest 595.58.03 is a no go :-(.. UI freezes up too much.
Well I'll be a son of a gun! Can confirms that works on CachyOS, too! For anyone wondering how to do it, on Cachy I simply added the line to the following file using sudo nano:
/etc/environment
Now, if anyone can figure out how to make Houdini play nice with Nvidia drivers after 580, that'd be the last missing link for me. I managed to track down that it's an XID error 69 that happens when the UI freezes, but I haven't been able to figure out what to do with that information LOL.
Same
590 did, too. I was hoping with 595 it'd be fixed. The AI showed me how to find that XID error, but none of the suggestions it gave for fixing it worked. Houdini with Linux and Wayland March 26, 2026, 11:55 p.m.
Well I'll be a son of a gun! Can confirms that works on CachyOS, too! For anyone wondering how to do it, on Cachy I simply added the line to the following file using sudo nano:
/etc/environment
Now, if anyone can figure out how to make Houdini play nice with Nvidia drivers after 580, that'd be the last missing link for me. I managed to track down that it's an XID error 69 that happens when the UI freezes, but I haven't been able to figure out what to do with that information LOL.
/etc/environment
Now, if anyone can figure out how to make Houdini play nice with Nvidia drivers after 580, that'd be the last missing link for me. I managed to track down that it's an XID error 69 that happens when the UI freezes, but I haven't been able to figure out what to do with that information LOL.