Intel GPU hardware acceleration in container

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I have been unable to make this work. Is this possible?

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I figured it out. I needed to set the gid of the video group from the container.

lxc config device add container gpu gpu gid=44

Every Ubuntu container has the gid for the video group as 44.

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I have now done this with an Nvidia GPU and an Intel iGPU. I even tested and was able to switch between the encoding on Jellyfin.

I did a guide on how I did this.

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Hi! Does it work for you with non-privileged containers?

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Yes, it was working in unprivileged containers. It seems a recent update to Ubuntu has borken things though. I haven’t changed any configuration but the pasthrough for intel GPU has stopped working.

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