# games-on-whales/wolf

Stream virtual desktops and games running in Docker

Repository: https://github.com/games-on-whales/wolf
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/wolf
Homepage: https://games-on-whales.github.io/wolf/stable/
Language: C++
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: cpp, moonlight, remote-desktop, streaming, games, docker
Last push: 2026-08-21T18:41:08+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 67/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1712, "days_push": 12, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2129, forks 149 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:17.025402+00:00)

## What it is
Wolf is a C++ streaming server for Moonlight that creates on-demand virtual desktops and game sessions in Docker containers on a shared Linux host. It supports multiple simultaneous users, multi-GPU setups, low-latency video/audio streaming, and gamepad passthrough.

## Use cases
- stream games from a Linux server to Moonlight clients
- share one gaming PC among multiple remote users
- run games in Docker containers with low privileges
- create virtual displays without a dummy plug
- encode streams on an iGPU while gaming on a discrete GPU
- stream a remote desktop with gamepad support

## When to choose
- you need multi-user game streaming from a single Linux host
- you want containerized, sandboxed game sessions
- you need virtual displays at arbitrary resolutions/FPS
- you want a hackable, config-driven streaming pipeline

## When to avoid
- you just need a simple single-user streaming server (use Sunshine)
- your host is Windows or macOS
- you don't use Docker or containers

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: streaming, container-runtime, graphics, gui
- domain: gaming-tools, self-hosted, media
- platform: self-hosted
- tags: moonlight, game-streaming, remote-desktop, virtual-display, multi-user, gpu-passthrough, games-on-whales, containers, linux, docker

## Member repositories
- games-on-whales/wolf (main) score 67

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:17.025402+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:52:24.907029+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/games-on-whales/wolf (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:17.025402+00:00, sha 9bc70d8c0379)
  - homepage: https://games-on-whales.github.io/wolf/stable/ (fetched 2026-08-29T10:32:14.816919+00:00, sha 0b775a3bde66)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.