At the release of Windows Server 2019 last year, we announced support for a set of hardware devices in Windows containers. One popular type of device missing support at the time: GPUs. We’ve heard fr...
Updated Apr 10, 2019
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rickman_MSFT
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MicrosoftIvan_Ushakov wrote:
@Craig Wilhite Hello. Are you providing GPU to the container or just doing some king of mapping for DirectX? I mean is GPU available inside container with this technology? For example is it possible to add GPU drivers to container and use specific API, like NVIDIA Video Codec SDK?
Hi Ivan. Thank you for your question. The technology enabling this configuration is essentially "providing a GPU to the container;" it's not just a DirectX API forwarding layer. As of today we only officially support GPU for DirectX inside a Windows container, but we understand there are plenty of container workloads that use non-DirectX APIs. So we're actively investigating support for those non-DirectX APIs, such as NVIDIA's as you mentioned.