I’ve created an Ubuntu Noble LXC Container and have passed through my NVIDIA GPU, and I’m looking to install the CUDA toolkit and NVIDIA driver files to support compilation and nvidia-smi usage. I’ve tried this a few ways but keep hitting complications as I can’t seem to get an exact version match b…

Update, for anyone else struggling with this - was able to get new NVIDIA drivers installed in the LXC using this 570.172.08 driver and running ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-570.172.08.run –no-kernel-module And was able to install the CUDA libraries from here . Solved!

For the driver you could also have manually edited the incus config file and add one line that passes the hosts nvidia driver to the lxc, that’s what I did. I then only had to manually install the toolkit following the instructions from the Nvidia website

Well that does sound significantly easier! Would you mind sharing the details of how to do that? I haven’t seen that published anywhere (or at least it didn’t come up in any of my searching)

This option only works with the incus backend in 25.10, not with the newer one form the 26 beta. you basically have to use the shell and sudo incus config edit name-of-your-lxc and add these two lines nvidia.driver.capabilities: compute,graphics,utility,video nvidia.runtime: "true" it should lo…

oh and i forgot another thing, which i already explained in another post so i’ll link to it [image] TrueNAS 25.10-RC.1 is Now Available! Announcements The biggest Problem with gpu passthrough was that docker expected a different mount path for the gpu. Docker …

Installing CUDA toolkit and NVIDIA drivers in a Container

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LarsR August 4, 2026, 7:40pm 6

oh and i forgot another thing, which i already explained in another post so i’ll link to it

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