Nvidia driver on Freebsd and Ubuntu match, useful for jails and chroots

Freebsd 14 p.6 quarterly Nvidia Driver 550.54.14
matches the exact version on Ubuntu 23.10

That means you can use the Nvidia driver from the Ubuntu repo in a jail or a chroot
and it will match the version on the Freebsd host

rather than having to download and manually install the Nvidia driver

You have to match the exact version of the Nvidia driver in a jail or chroot
as on the Freebsd host for the driver to work

Ubuntu driver version to install in a Jail or Chroot

Code:
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-550-server

Nvidia cuda toolkit install on Ubuntu

Code:
sudo apt install nvidia-cuda-toolkit ocl-icd-opencl-dev libglu1-mesa libfuse2 initramfs-tools

Freebsd nv-sglrun nvidia-smi

Code:
Yes Master ? nv-sglrun nvidia-smi
shim init
Sun Apr 14 15:32:07 2024
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 550.54.14              Driver Version: 550.54.14      CUDA Version: 12.4     |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                        |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650        Off |   00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| N/A   41C    P8              2W /   50W |       0MiB /   4096MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                              GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|  No running processes found                                                             |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Ubuntu nvidia-smi in a Jail

Code:
ubuntu% nvidia-smi
Sun Apr 14 15:32:15 2024
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 550.54.14              Driver Version: 550.54.14      CUDA Version: 12.4     |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                        |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650        Off |   00000000:01:00.0 Off |                  N/A |
| N/A   41C    P8              1W /   50W |       0MiB /   4096MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                              GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|  No running processes found                                                             |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
 
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