Intel Nuc 10 GPU passthrough to LXC for Plex hardware transcoding

[md127]

Hi,
I've configured the container as follows:

arch: amd64
cores: 4
features: nesting=1
hostname: plex
memory: 4096
net0: name=eth0,bridge=vmbr0,hwaddr=36:E6:21:5B:00:CE,ip=dhcp,type=veth
onboot: 0
ostype: ubuntu
rootfs: local-lvm:vm-103-disk-0,size=8G
swap: 1024
lxc.cgroup2.devices.allow: c 226:0 rwm
lxc.cgroup2.devices.allow: c 226:128 rwm
lxc.cgroup2.devices.allow: c 29:0 rwm
lxc.mount.entry: /dev/fb0 dev/fb0 none bind,optional,create=file
lxc.mount.entry: /dev/dri dev/dri none bind,optional,create=dir
lxc.mount.entry: /dev/dri/renderD128 dev/renderD128 none bind,optional,create=file
lxc.mount.entry: /mnt/pve/Data mnt/Data none bind,create=dir 0 0

The driver seems to be available from within the container:

root@plex:~# ls -l /dev/dri
total 0
drw-rw---- 2 root root        80 Feb  7 16:49 by-path
crw-rw---- 1 root video 226,   0 Feb  9 22:04 card0
crw-rw---- 1 root video 226, 128 Feb  9 13:43 renderD128

Plex however can't find the GPU and not doing hardware transcoding. Anything I'm missing?

 

[md127]

i915 driver found on host but not within container:

root@plex:~# modprobe i915
modprobe: FATAL: Module i915 not found in directory /lib/modules/5.13.19-3-pve

 

[dcsapak]

i don't know how plex determines if there is a gpu or what tools must be installed, but you cannot load a kernel module from the container, that has to be done on the host
(and i guess it is already loaded, else you would not get the /dev/dri paths)

 

[md127]

Thanks. Running Plex on the host for now.

 

[mhlho]

I am having the same issue. Is there any fix?

 

[md127]

Yes! Here it is: Plex forum

 

[Dataninja]

Thanks. Running Plex on the host for now.

Are you still running it on the host? I'm about to do the same because I can't get the iGPU to get passed through a container. Do you have a reference on how to directly install it on the proxmox host?