docker-nvidia-egl-desktop
MATE Desktop container for NVIDIA GPUs without using an X Server, directly
accessing the GPU with EGL to emulate GLX using VirtualGL and TurboVNC. Does not
require /tmp/.X11-unix host sockets.
Use
docker-nvidia-glx-desktop
for a MATE Desktop container with Vulkan support for NVIDIA GPUs by spawning its
own X Server without /tmp/.X11-unix host sockets.
Requires NVIDIA GPU drivers and corresponding container toolkits for allocating GPUs to be set up on the host.
Connect to the spawned noVNC WebSocket instance with a browser in port 5901, no VNC client required (password for the default user is 'vncpasswd').
Note: Requires access to the corresponding /dev/dri/cardX and /dev/dri/renderDX DRM devices of the allocated NVIDIA GPU. Check out k8s-hostdev-plugin for provisioning this in Kubernetes clusters without privileged access.
For building Ubuntu 18.04 containers, in Dockerfile change
FROM nvidia/opengl:1.2-glvnd-runtime-ubuntu20.04 to
FROM nvidia/opengl:1.2-glvnd-runtime-ubuntu18.04 and remove the render group
in the command adding secondary groups to the default user, then in
bootstrap.sh comment out pulseaudio --start.
For Docker this will be sufficient (the container will not use DRM devices it is not allocated to):
docker run --gpus 1 --device=/dev/dri:rw -it -e SIZEW=1920 -e SIZEH=1080 -e CDEPTH=24 -e SHARED=TRUE -e VNCPASS=vncpasswd -p 5901:5901 ehfd/nvidia-egl-desktop:latest