Awesome. Thanks for the reply and I apologize for suggesting something incorrect.
It does strike me as tricky needing to match driver versions between the host and the container. Do you know if there is any effort to eliminate that requirement?
Also while we're chatting, is there any hope of NVIDIA open sourcing their linux drivers? How would such a move affect nvidia-docker?
You don't need to match the driver version between the host and the container. Actually, you shouldn't include any driver file inside the container.
All the user-level driver-files required for execution are mounted when the container is started using a volume. This way you can deploy the same container on any machine with NVIDIA drivers installed.
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Awesome. Thanks for the reply and I apologize for suggesting something incorrect.
It does strike me as tricky needing to match driver versions between the host and the container. Do you know if there is any effort to eliminate that requirement?
Also while we're chatting, is there any hope of NVIDIA open sourcing their linux drivers? How would such a move affect nvidia-docker?
You don't need to match the driver version between the host and the container. Actually, you shouldn't include any driver file inside the container.
All the user-level driver-files required for execution are mounted when the container is started using a volume. This way you can deploy the same container on any machine with NVIDIA drivers installed.
We have more details on our wiki: https://github.com/NVIDIA/nvidia-docker/wiki/Internals
Concerning your last question: I don't have any information on this topic, but anyway it would not really impact nvidia-docker.