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by nsingh2 736 days ago
Not as secure as VMs but GPU passthrough with Docker/Podman is much easier to set up, and you can even use the GPU on the host machine at the same time.
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Are you giving it access to /dev/dri, or doing some fancier sandboxing?

(Would you even need anything fancier? I think /dev/dri is supposed to isolate users.)

Nvidia provides a toolkit to do this [1], getting a GPU into a container is as easy as running `podman run --device nvidia.com/gpu=all`. The process is similar for Docker, but rootless Docker requires some extra steps IIRC.

[1] https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/cloud-native/container-to...