RunpodR
Runpod•3mo ago
hisayan

Can I use Vulkan in Runpod ?

Hi,

I’m trying to use Vulkan inside the following Docker image:

runpod/pytorch:2.8.0-py3.11-cuda12.8.1-cudnn-devel-ubuntu22.04


I installed Vulkan tools with:

apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends vulkan-tools


However, when I run vulkaninfo or any Vulkan program, I get the following error:

ERROR: [Loader Message] Code 0 : loader_scanned_icd_add: Could not get 'vkCreateInstance' via 'vk_icdGetInstanceProcAddr' for ICD libGLX_nvidia.so.0


I suspect it might be related to the NVIDIA Vulkan driver or ICD not being present inside the container.

Has anyone successfully used Vulkan with this Docker image?

How can I properly configure the NVIDIA Vulkan ICD in this container?

Thanks in advance for any help!



root@88c99df870d9:/app# cat /etc/vulkan/icd.d/nvidia_icd.json 
{
    "file_format_version" : "1.0.1",
    "ICD": {
        "library_path": "libGLX_nvidia.so.0",
        "api_version" : "1.4.303"
    }
}
root@88c99df870d9:/app# dpkg -l | grep vulkan
ii  libvulkan1:amd64                1.3.204.1-2                             amd64        Vulkan loader library
ii  vulkan-tools                    1.3.204.0+dfsg1-1                       amd64        Miscellaneous Vulkan utilities
root@88c99df870d9:/app# dpkg -l | grep nvidia
root@88c99df870d9:/app# nvidia-smi
Wed Oct  1 01:12:16 2025       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 570.172.08             Driver Version: 570.172.08     CUDA Version: 12.8     |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                        |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA RTX A4500               On  |   00000000:81:00.0 Off |                  Off |
| 30%   24C    P8             16W /  200W |       1MiB /  20470MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
                                                                                         
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI              PID   Type   Process name                        GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|  No running processes found                                                             |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
root@88c99df870d9:/app# vulkaninfo --summary
ERROR: [Loader Message] Code 0 : loader_scanned_icd_add: Could not get 'vkCreateInstance' via 'vk_icdGetInstanceProcAddr' for ICD libGLX_nvidia.so.0
Cannot create Vulkan instance.
This problem is often caused by a faulty installation of the Vulkan driver or attempting to use a GPU that does not support Vulkan.
ERROR at ./vulkaninfo/vulkaninfo.h:649:vkCreateInstance failed with ERROR_INCOMPATIBLE_DRIVER
root@88c99df870d9:/app#
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