feat:add virutalgl for hardware accelrated opengl

[vajonam]

Add support for virtualGL.

This however means you need to get VirtualGL supported on the host this involved the following

• installing simple X server
• installing virtualgl and running vglserver_config

Once the X server is up and running. Then this container will with fully accelerated

[vajonam]

@helfrichmichael its in a decent spot now. This approach with VirtualGL it need a Xserver and VirtualGL running on the host (which can be headless). And we will need to make that a pre-req. We will have to document steps to get that going. I tried so many things so need to understand what I did from a docs perspective. But folks who already are using Xsever this should be quite easy.

[vajonam]

Need a solution for firefox, because in 22.04 it runs from snapd, and I can't be bothered to get snapd to work inside a container for now that is missing.

[vajonam]

Do you need to launch firefox with a /usr/bin/vglrun before it so that it uses the GPU? I will make the rendering faster.

[helfrichmichael]

To adjust this, we'd need to modify the lxpanel configuration for firefox-esr to add that prior to the firefox-esr bit.

It does work using /usr/bin/vglrun firefox-esr, but I'm unsure how best to implement this consistently. I can look into that in a bit.

[vajonam]

• rename firefox-esr and create a script file that calls the renamed binary prepending vglrun and postpending any params. vglrun /usr/bin/firefox-esr-renameed $@

[helfrichmichael]

Interestingly, I cannot get the GPU (NVidia RTX 3070) to passthrough with NVidia + WSL2 + Docker on Windows. Using the benchmark in https://docs.docker.com/desktop/gpu/ works just fine though.

Command I'm using to start it: docker run --detach --volume=prusaslicer-novnc-data:/configs/ --volume=prusaslicer-novnc-prints:/prints/ -p 8080:8080 -e SSL_CERT_FILE="/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt" -e ENABLEHWGPU=true -e NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES="all" -e NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES="all" --name=prusaslicer-novnc prusaslicer-novnc

Wondering if I've done something wrong to cause the GPU to not passthrough?

[vajonam]

You might need to set permissions on the card on the host. In the VirtualGL package there is vglserver_config tool you can run and select EGL and select N on the permission options. Give that a try. That is a useful tool to setup the card and driver on the host. Also I am not sure how nvidia implements EGL in windows drivers. You need to check about that.

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[vajonam]

Also make sure you can read /dev/dri/card0 from inside the docker container this is that vglrun uses. So that's the first place to look along with the tool I mentioned above

[vajonam]

The GPU benchmark is testing out CUDA cores which are differnt from the EGL features virtualGL uses. AFAIK. I am no expert just got into this a few days ago!

[vajonam]

added code to launch firefox-esr as accelerated if ENABLEHWGPU is set.

[helfrichmichael]

Sorry again for the delay. I'll be reviewing and merging this tonight after work. It's been a busy few days.

[helfrichmichael]

Super sorry for the delayed review! Merging now and we'll address any bugs along the way. Thanks again!