Feature: Vulkan Support

[mlamarre]

I know, the info is on the FAQ.
Just wanted to do ++Vulkan.
Hope Vulkan > 1

[edowson]

Hi,

The following code snippet can be added to any docker image to add vulkan support and ray-tracing.

NVIDIA_DRIVER_VERSION='430.26'
VULKAN_SDK_VERSION='1.1.108.0'

# install vulkan sdk
ARG BUILD_VERSION
ARG VULKAN_SDK_VERSION
ENV VULKAN_SDK_VERSION=$VULKAN_SDK_VERSION
RUN echo "downloading Vulkan SDK $VULKAN_SDK_VERSION" \
    && wget -q --show-progress --progress=bar:force:noscroll https://sdk.lunarg.com/sdk/download/$VULKAN_SDK_VERSION/linux/vulkansdk-linux-x86_64-$VULKAN_SDK_VERSION.tar.gz?Human=true -O /tmp/vulkansdk-linux-x86_64-$VULKAN_SDK_VERSION.tar.gz \
    && echo "installing Vulkan SDK $VULKAN_SDK_VERSION" \
    && mkdir -p /opt/vulkan \
    && tar -xf /tmp/vulkansdk-linux-x86_64-$VULKAN_SDK_VERSION.tar.gz -C /opt/vulkan \
    && rm /tmp/vulkansdk-linux-x86_64-$VULKAN_SDK_VERSION.tar.gz

# install nvidia driver
ARG NVIDIA_DRIVER_VERSION
ENV NVIDIA_DRIVER_VERSION $NVIDIA_DRIVER_VERSION
RUN wget -q --show-progress --progress=bar:force:noscroll http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/$NVIDIA_DRIVER_VERSION/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-$NVIDIA_DRIVER_VERSION.run -O /tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-$NVIDIA_DRIVER_VERSION.run \
    && cd /tmp \
    && sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-$NVIDIA_DRIVER_VERSION.run --extract-only \
    && cp /tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-$NVIDIA_DRIVER_VERSION/libnvidia-cbl.so.$NVIDIA_DRIVER_VERSION /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ \
    && cp /tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-$NVIDIA_DRIVER_VERSION/libnvidia-glvkspirv.so.$NVIDIA_DRIVER_VERSION /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ \
    && cp /tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-$NVIDIA_DRIVER_VERSION/libnvidia-rtcore.so.$NVIDIA_DRIVER_VERSION /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ \
    && rm -rf /tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-$NVIDIA_DRIVER_VERSION /tmp/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-$NVIDIA_DRIVER_VERSION.run

[mlamarre]

For those using nvidia/cudagl family of images with Ubuntu 18.04 and graphic drivers from the official bionic or ppa repos, I made tiny changes to the nvidia alpha vulkan image for 16.04 to make it work on 18.04. I only tested vulkaninfo but at least that works. I guess official support is coming soon, but if you can't wait here's the Dockerfile:

https://gitlab.com/mlamarre/vulkan/blob/ubuntu18.04/Dockerfile

[RenaudWasTaken]

We've published an alpha image here:

• https://gitlab.com/nvidia/container-images/vulkan
• https://hub.docker.com/r/nvidia/vulkan