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passing thought gpu to Proxmox lxc container

• install nvidia drivers on the host
• install partial drivers in the lxc
• blacklist novel (something like that) drvier
  • black list files are in ``
  • edit /etc/modprobe.d/pve-blacklist.conf or create own .conf if it doesn't exist
  • add following lines
    • blacklist nouveau
    • options nouveau modeset=0
  • exec update-grub
  • exec update-initramfs -u
  • reboot
• enable power management on the host
  • exec nvidia-smi -pm 1
  • you will need to create a system service that starts this a boot
    • nano /etc/systemd/system/nvidia-monitor.service

[Unit]
Description=Enable NVIDIA Persistence Mode
After=nvidia-kernel-common.service
Wants=nvidia-kernel-common.service

[Service]
Type=oneshot
RemainAfterExit=yes
ExecStart=/usr/bin/nvidia-smi -pm 1

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

	- systemctl daemon-reload
	- systemctl enable --now nvidia-monitor.service

• to pass the gpu to the container
  • exec ls -l /dev/nvidia*
  • edit /etc/pve/lxc/ID.conf
  • add following line, adjust using values from above

# Allow the container to access the GPU devices
lxc.cgroup2.devices.allow: c 195:* rwm
lxc.cgroup2.devices.allow: c 511:* rwm

# Pass through the device files
lxc.mount.entry: /dev/nvidia0 dev/nvidia0 none bind,optional,create=file
lxc.mount.entry: /dev/nvidia1 dev/nvidia1 none bind,optional,create=file
lxc.mount.entry: /dev/nvidiactl dev/nvidiactl none bind,optional,create=file
lxc.mount.entry: /dev/nvidia-uvm dev/nvidia-uvm none bind,optional,create=file
lxc.mount.entry: /dev/nvidia-uvm-tools dev/nvidia-uvm-tools none bind,optional,create=file