NVIDIA Driver Passthrough Failure for OpenWebUI

Megatron16

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Hello Everyone,

Firstly, I will confess I'm a total noob. Having said that I'm not a total luddite but a fairly quick study and I've done an extensive search to try to solve my issue to no avail. For context, my goal is to self host my own AI in which I'm trying to pass through dual Nvidia RTX 3090 gpus into an LXC. To accomplish I've been following Digital Spaceport's You tube guide. This worked with out a hitch in October 2025 but for other reasons I recently had to start over and do a fresh install on the latest version of Proxmox (9.1.2) and that's when the problems started. I first began to encounter problems installing the driver [NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-580.119.02.run] on the host node in which I received an error message during the Nvidia proprietary setup about a missing x - config file and a recommendation to install pkg-config. Regardless, I pushed through and nvidia-smi or NVtop displayed the gpus and all seemed well, or so I thought. I next passed through the driver into OpenWebUI LXC created from the Proxmox VE helper script but when I attempted to update the container and install NVTOP this is the message I received:

root@openwebui:~# apt update && apt upgrade -y && apt install nvtop -y
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie InRelease
Hit:2 http://security.debian.org trixie-security InRelease
Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates InRelease
Hit:4 https://apt.repos.intel.com/oneapi all InRelease
Hit:5 https://repositories.intel.com/gpu/ubuntu jammy InRelease
11 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
You might want to run 'apt --fix-broken install' to correct these.
Unsatisfied dependencies:
level-zero-dev : Depends: level-zero
Error: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt --fix-broken install' with no packages (or specify a solution).


Apt --fix-broken install does not work and I've tried countless other solutions to try to fix this issue including the following:
  1. Rolling back Proxmox to an earlier ISO on a fresh install;
  2. The use an older Nvidia Driver, namely the one used by Digital SpacePort [NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-580.76.05.run] all on a fresh install; and
  3. Adding the non-free repository in Proxmox by editing the sources list file to add "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ trixie main contrib non-free non-free-firmware" and
    "deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ trixie-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware".
Unfortunately, none of the above worked. In fact, the older driver wouldn't even install if I attempted to run it in OpenWebUI just to see if I could at least install it. At this point, I am at my wit's end here and I'm starting to think that there's a compatibility issue with NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-580.119.02.run and debian 6.17.4-1? Of course, I'm just guessing here as I really don't have the knowledge or experience to know for sure but I've scoured the internet to try to solve this with out any luck.

If anyone has any suggestions to help me get this issue solved, I would be greatly appreciate it to say the least! Thanks in advance.
 
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