general/other Cuda working on Freebsd using Podman - support thread

Run Linux command line and gui applications on FreeBSD with full Nvidia Cuda hardware acceleration.


I have also posted this in the how to section
But that has comments disabled by default from memory

mods i created another thread so people post comments
and you dont have to approve them in the how to section, just trying to save you some work

Note the video does have chapters so you can jump to sections


Mounts the Linuxulator libraries from Freebsd into the Podman containers, so you dont need to install the Nvidia driver into the container

Wayland/X11 and PulseAudio Pass-through

Displays graphics and routes audio via native FreeBSD sockets mounted inside the Podman container

Hardware acclerated video

Persistent storage for files so settings are retained when stopping containers

Directory mounted from Freebsd into the Podman container for file access

GUI Applications launched with desktop entries on Freebsd
Pre-configured Applications

Firefox with hardware accelerated video and Widevine DRM support

ffmpeg with hardware-accelerated nvenc encoding

WhisperX audio transcription with Cuda acceleration

Ollama using Cuda

Root dotfiles


dotfile


bin

 
The project is built for Wayland and X11

Im running Wayland so havent been able to test it on X11
but it should work

So we need some X11 Guinea pigs to test it out

500px-George_the_amazing_guinea_pig.jpg
 
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