nix-direnv VS vgpu_unlock

BTW: I personally use direnv with nix-direnv. This basically works by setting your shell with proper tooling when you enter the directory.

I'm not sure what you mean by nix env, maybe you are referring to nix-direnv?

Although currently I'm using direnv + nix-direnv. Keep in mind that direnv has builtin nix support which is very basic and doesn't do any caching. So you still needs this add-on to preserve roots.

I distinguish between system level things and user level things, even though I don't really have different users on my machine. I install the bare minimum number of packages + a lot of different drivers in the configuration.nix, and desktop and editor related things in HM. For development environment, I have environment per project using mkShell and https://github.com/nix-community/nix-direnv, which allows you to switch to the specific environment once you cd into the directory. (Although I do have python installed globally with some commonly used packages such as numpy, so I can just start python and write something when I need to, without creating an environment)

I further make my software projects so that when I click a link I go into an environment pre-loaded with their dependencies so dropping in/out of projects is always frictionless. I do this with the reproducibility guarantees of nix, along with glue like nix-direnv and envrc-mode to direnv.

(I also use nix-direnv)

direnv

Personally I use nix-direnv. No longer the need to run nix develop or nix-shell. By setting up a .envrc with either use nix or use flake it will automatically install all the packages from default/shell.nix or flake.nix

Direnv is installed using the nix-direnv installation instructions under "Via configuration.nix in NixOS". I read some recommendations that envrc.el is a better alternative then direnv.el, and after some testing I have to agree. (envrc-global-mode) is enabled in my config. This works perfectly with a normal emacs instance.

This isn’t even the first time a hacked driver has been used to unlock some HW feature - https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock

Alternatively enable vGPU for the 2070 and use it for both Jellyfin LXC and Windows VM. https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock

I'm on Linux and I'm running a 3070 Ti (Nvidia). I have always wanted to do GPU virtualization but because NVIDIA won't release vGPU for consumer card no one can do it without crossing legal red tape or problems with bricking your GPU. I did find this [https://github.com/jamesstringerparsec/Easy-GPU-PV] however it is only for windows, I found this [https://github.com/Arc-Compute/LibVF.IO/] and does not work with my GPU, and this [https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock] and can't get it to work. Done any one know an alternative on Linux that work just like this, overcoming these problems (on KVM)?

Otherwise, your only other option is the real hardware virtualization options that are available. NVIDIA's enterprise vGPU solution is for expensive compute cards however some have had good luck making vGPUs work on consumer NVIDIA cards with tools such as vgpu_unlock

There was a hack to enable it on some consumer cards, but it’s not available on Ampere/30x0 cards: https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock/issues/8

Pci passthrough https://github.com/mbilker/vgpu_unlock-rs https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock/issues/91 https://gitlab.com/polloloco/vgpu-proxmox https://github.com/joeknock90/Single-GPU-Passthrough https://gitlab.com/YuriAlek/vfio#start-here https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/b5xpua/the_ultimate_beginners_guide_to_gpu_passthrough/ https://forum.level1techs.com/t/single-gpu-passthrough-with-proxmox/113282/2 https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/problem-with-gpu-passthrough.55918/