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Access Nvidia GPU on host from unprivileged LXC
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| # id mapping | |
| lxc.idmap = u 0 100000 65536 | |
| lxc.idmap = g 0 100000 65536 | |
| # --- NVIDIA GPU Passthrough Configuration --- | |
| # Allow cgroup access to the devices | |
| # (195 handles nvidiactl/nvidia0, 509 handles nvidia-uvm for CUDA) | |
| lxc.cgroup2.devices.allow = c 195:* rwm | |
| lxc.cgroup2.devices.allow = c 509:* rwm | |
| # Bind mount the required hardware nodes | |
| # Populate the device nodes inside the container cleanly at startup | |
| lxc.hook.pre-start = sh -c "mknod -m 666 ${LXC_ROOTFS_MOUNT}/dev/nvidia0 c 195 0" | |
| lxc.hook.pre-start = sh -c "mknod -m 666 ${LXC_ROOTFS_MOUNT}/dev/nvidia1 c 195 1" | |
| lxc.hook.pre-start = sh -c "mknod -m 666 ${LXC_ROOTFS_MOUNT}/dev/nvidiactl c 195 255" | |
| lxc.hook.pre-start = sh -c "mknod -m 666 ${LXC_ROOTFS_MOUNT}/dev/nvidia-uvm c 509 0" | |
| lxc.hook.pre-start = sh -c "mknod -m 666 ${LXC_ROOTFS_MOUNT}/dev/nvidia-uvm-tools c 509 1" |
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