Operating system
Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
Description
Hi!
So I was trying to get a Nvidia GPU mapped to a Windows 11 container, similar to what I do with Linux containers....but it's a bit random what works, and I wonder if we could get some guidelines added to the main page similar to what is done for other features (additional disks, external network, etc.) ?
In my specific case, the setup is a Proxmox server (8.4.1) running an Ubuntu 24.04.2 VM with PCIE GPU passthrough. This portion works fine, the VM can see the GPU and Nvidia docker toolkit is installed.
Linux docker containers do all work well and can use the GPU (an RTX8000).
The challenge begins with the Windows container.
It appears that when enabling the GPU: "Y" option and reference /dev/dri it does install support for Intel iGPU (something I do not have on the test machine), but for Nvidia GPUs, I've not been able to get it to map it properly to the container. At no time it got to a point where the GPU is seen in the device manager in the Windows container.
Any suggestions ?
Here's what's seen on the docker VM:
root@docker-03-gpu:~# lspci | egrep -i "vga|3d"
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Device 1234:1111 (rev 02)
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU102GL [Quadro RTX 6000/8000] (rev a1)
root@docker-03-gpu:~# nvidia-smi
Tue May 13 07:20:28 2025
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 550.144.03 Driver Version: 550.144.03 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 Quadro RTX 8000 Off | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | 0 |
| N/A 45C P0 64W / 250W | 2629MiB / 46080MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=========================================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 3634 C /usr/local/bin/python 266MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 8171 C ...in/ubuntu/python38/venv/bin/python3 870MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 8468 C python3.8 1490MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Docker compose
services:
windows:
image: dockurr/windows:latest
networks:
dclan:
container_name: win11test
environment:
VERSION: "11"
USERNAME: "bill"
PASSWORD: "gates"
REGION: "en-US"
KEYBOARD: "en-US"
LANGUAGE: "English"
DHCP: "Y"
DISK_SIZE: "200G"
RAM_SIZE: "32G"
CPU_CORES: "8"
GPU: "Y"
NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES: "all"
NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES: "all"
devices:
- /dev/kvm
- /dev/net/tun
- /dev/vhost-net
- /dev/dri
device_cgroup_rules:
- 'c *:* rwm'
cap_add:
- NET_ADMIN
ports:
- 8006:8006
- 3389:3389/tcp
- 3389:3389/udp
volumes:
- ./windows:/storage
restart: always
stop_grace_period: 2m
deploy:
resources:
reservations:
devices:
- driver: nvidia
count: all
capabilities: [compute, utility]
networks:
dclan:
external: trueDocker log
❯ Starting Windows for Docker v4.35...
❯ For support visit https://github.com/dockur/windows
❯ CPU: Intel Xeon Gold 5220 | RAM: 110/126 GB | DISK: 95 GB (ext4) | KERNEL: 6.8.0-59...
❯ Requesting Windows 11 from the Microsoft servers...
❯ Downloading product information from Microsoft server...
❯ Downloading Windows 11...
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❯ Extracting Windows 11 bootdisk...
❯ Extracting Windows 11 environment...
❯ Extracting Windows 11 setup...
❯ Extracting Windows 11 image...
❯ Adding drivers to image...
❯ Adding win11x64.xml for automatic installation...
❯ Building Windows 11 image...
❯ Creating a 200 GB growable disk image in raw format...
❯ Installing Intel GPU drivers...
❯ Installing OpenGL module...
❯ Nested KVM virtualization detected..
❯ Booting Windows securely using QEMU v10.0.0...
qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.80000007H:EDX.invtsc [bit 8]
qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.80000007H:EDX.invtsc [bit 8]
qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.80000007H:EDX.invtsc [bit 8]
qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.80000007H:EDX.invtsc [bit 8]
qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.80000007H:EDX.invtsc [bit 8]
qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.80000007H:EDX.invtsc [bit 8]
qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.80000007H:EDX.invtsc [bit 8]
qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.80000007H:EDX.invtsc [bit 8]
BdsDxe: skipped Boot0002 "UEFI QEMU QEMU HARDDISK " from PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0xA,0x0)/Scsi(0x0,0x0)
BdsDxe: loading Boot0001 "UEFI QEMU DVD-ROM QM00013 " from PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x5,0x0)/Sata(0x0,0xFFFF,0x0)
BdsDxe: starting Boot0001 "UEFI QEMU DVD-ROM QM00013 " from PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x5,0x0)/Sata(0x0,0xFFFF,0x0)
❯ Windows started succesfully, visit http://127.0.0.1:8006/ to view the screen...Screenshots (optional)
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Operating system
Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
Description
Hi!
So I was trying to get a Nvidia GPU mapped to a Windows 11 container, similar to what I do with Linux containers....but it's a bit random what works, and I wonder if we could get some guidelines added to the main page similar to what is done for other features (additional disks, external network, etc.) ?
In my specific case, the setup is a Proxmox server (8.4.1) running an Ubuntu 24.04.2 VM with PCIE GPU passthrough. This portion works fine, the VM can see the GPU and Nvidia docker toolkit is installed.
Linux docker containers do all work well and can use the GPU (an RTX8000).
The challenge begins with the Windows container.
It appears that when enabling the GPU: "Y" option and reference /dev/dri it does install support for Intel iGPU (something I do not have on the test machine), but for Nvidia GPUs, I've not been able to get it to map it properly to the container. At no time it got to a point where the GPU is seen in the device manager in the Windows container.
Any suggestions ?
Here's what's seen on the docker VM:
Docker compose
Docker log
Screenshots (optional)
No response