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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Microsoftdocker1575 wrote:
Does it support to install NVIDIA Driver in the container to using NVIDIA??
Thanks for your question. I can see two possible ways to interpret your question, so I will answer both interpretations:
1. Does this enable my Windows containers to get hardware acceleration on NVIDIA GPUs?
Yes. If you have NVIDIA drivers installed on the container host (that meet the requirements described in the blog post), then when you run a container with the --device parameter as described in the blog post, your apps can get hardware acceleration whenever they use the DirectX graphics and compute APIs inside the container. You don't even need to install those drivers in the container; Docker automatically makes the right drivers from the host available to the container.
2. Does this enable my Windows containers to get hardware-accelerated CUDA?
No. Hardware acceleration is currently only supported for the DirectX APIs (and higher-level APIs built on DirectX) but does not include CUDA or similar APIs. We've heard lots of feedback that customers are interested in those, and we're actively investigating support for those.