'guidellm:latest' not available for image platform (linux/arm64)

[jharriga]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I'd like to run the guidellm container image on aarch64 system
sut# lscpu | grep Model <-- Model name: Ampere-1a
sut# podman run --rm ghcr.io/vllm-project/guidellm:latest
WARNING: image platform (linux/amd64) does not match the expected platform (linux/arm64)
{"msg":"exec container process /opt/app-root/bin/guidellm: Exec format error","level":"error","time":"2025-12-04T18:58:30.772456Z"}

Describe the solution you'd like
Availability of (linux/arm64) image

Describe alternatives you've considered
Using 'pip install' provides aarch64 wheels-pkgs

Additional context
None

[sjmonson]

We cannot offer this yet as one of our optional dependencies for audio benchmarking is still working on their Linux ARM builds (see meta-pytorch/torchcodec#569). The container is designed to offer all features out of the box and I do not want to publish official ARM builds until this is resolved.

As a temporary solution, once #509 lands you can build the container yourself with GUIDELLM_BUILD_EXTRAS=recommended which will drop the extras groups for multi-modal benchmarking. E.g.

podman build \
    --platform linux/arm64 \
    --build-arg GUIDELLM_BUILD_TYPE=release \
    --build-arg GUIDELLM_BUILD_EXTRAS=recommended \
    -t guidellm:latest \
    -f Containerfile \
    .