fix image selection, WSL2 detection and gpu device passthrough - #2936
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Image selection keys off the resolved backend's GPU environment variable, which in auto mode is not the one the hardware was detected as. Two things fall out of that for a GPU that resolves to the vulkan backend: An image the user configured for their GPU, e.g. images.HIP_VISIBLE_DEVICES, is never looked up, because the lookup happens after the key has been rewritten to GGML_VK_VISIBLE_DEVICES. Consult the detected GPU first in auto mode, so a pin for the hardware wins over one for the resolved backend. default_image / RAMALAMA_DEFAULT_IMAGE is ignored, because the vulkan entry in the image table hardcodes the published quay.io/ramalama/ramalama tag. With no GPU at all the same code path returns default_image, so the two disagreed. Drop the entry and let it fall through. Signed-off-by: Oliver Walsh <owalsh@redhat.com>
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WalkthroughThe change adds WSL2 detection, applies accelerator environment variables to GPU device discovery, updates backend and image selection, adjusts container device mappings, and revises related documentation and tests. ChangesWSL2 GPU backend and device handling
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~30 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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Runtime->>common: read accelerator environment variables
common-->>Runtime: selected GPU device paths
Runtime->>Container: add backend-specific devices and mounts
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In `@docs/ramalama-cuda.7.md`:
- Around line 141-142: Update the GPU passthrough description near the NVIDIA
container toolkit guidance to qualify that matching CDI entries pass only the
selected GPUs, while an unavailable or incomplete CDI configuration falls back
to passing all detected GPUs. Keep the existing explanation about explicitly
adding /dev/dri for other host devices.
In `@docs/ramalama-run.1.md`:
- Around line 69-71: Update the WSL2 backend guidance in the documentation
copies around the Vulkan note: state that vendor-specific backends such as rocm
and sycl are preferred, while Vulkan remains supported as a fallback and can be
explicitly selected with --backend=vulkan. Apply the same wording consistently
to all five copies.
In `@ramalama/engine.py`:
- Around line 153-160: Update add_device_options() so the WSL2 resource
attachment for /dev/dxg and /usr/lib/wsl is shared by both HIP_VISIBLE_DEVICES
and INTEL_VISIBLE_DEVICES, while retaining the wsl_devices_added guard. Add a
test covering HIP_VISIBLE_DEVICES on WSL2 and verifying both attachments are
applied.
In `@ramalama/quadlet.py`:
- Around line 71-75: Update Quadlet.generate() to read the live
nvidia_selected_devices value from ramalama.common and emit one Container
AddDevice entry using nvidia.com/gpu=<name> for each selected CDI device. Emit
nvidia.com/gpu=all only when the selection is empty, preserving the existing
CUDA-only behavior.
In `@test/unit/test_engine.py`:
- Line 61: Update the new test helpers and test methods in the affected test
class with type hints: annotate accel_env_vars and windows_or_wsl, add explicit
return annotations to each helper, and use -> None for every new test method.
Keep the existing behavior unchanged and ensure the annotations are compatible
with mypy.
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Backend preferences already avoided Vulkan on Windows, because WSL2 exposes GPUs through /dev/dxg and Vulkan there means mesa's dzn driver translating to D3D12 (no cooperative matrix support, no compute tuning) or a silent llvmpipe fallback. That check used platform.system() == "Windows", which is only true for a native Windows interpreter. Running ramalama inside the WSL2 distro itself reports "Linux" and got the Linux defaults. Add is_windows_or_wsl() alongside the other platform predicates in common, covering both cases, and use it for the AMD and Intel preference overrides. The /dev/dxg passthrough and /usr/lib/wsl bind mount in add_device_options() move to the same predicate. They are needed wherever the GPU comes in through WSL, so leaving them on the Windows check would have picked the sycl image inside a distro and then handed it no GPU at all. Describe the split in the docs as WSL2 rather than Windows to match, and reflow the dangling comment in the sample config while touching it. in_wsl() caches its /proc read, so clear it around every test in conftest, as in_toolbox already does. Signed-off-by: Oliver Walsh <owalsh@redhat.com>
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🟠 Major · Remap CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES in Quadlet output. · quadlet.py:139-145
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winRemap
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICESin Quadlet output.When
nvidia_selected_devicescontains host indices such as["1"], Quadlet adds onlynvidia.com/gpu=1but_gen_env()writesCUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=1unchanged. The container renumbers its single exposed GPU as0, so CUDA can hide the allocated GPU. Compose and Engine already usecontainer_cuda_visible_devices()for this remapping.Apply the same conversion in Quadlet:
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-from ramalama.common import MNT_DIR, RAG_DIR, ContainerEntryPoint, get_accel, get_accel_env_vars +from ramalama.common import ( + MNT_DIR, + RAG_DIR, + ContainerEntryPoint, + container_cuda_visible_devices, + get_accel, + get_accel_env_vars, +) ... env_var_string = "" for k, v in get_accel_env_vars().items(): + if k == "CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES": + v = container_cuda_visible_devices(v) quadlet_file.add("Container", "Environment", f"{k}={v}")🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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The NVIDIA container toolkit injects the device nodes of the GPUs that were asked for, DRM nodes included. Mapping the host's GPU devices in on top of that - /dev/dri, /dev/kfd, /dev/accel - can only add devices that are not the accelerator in play: an iGPU on a hybrid host, or a GPU left out of a narrowed CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES selection. That was harmless while llama.cpp ran CUDA, which ignores any device it was not given, but the Vulkan backend offloads onto every device it can enumerate. The extra GPU is likely to be far slower than the one that was asked for, and on a narrowed selection it is one the user asked to keep out. So hand the host's GPU devices over only when NVIDIA is not the accelerator: in get_gpu_devices() for "--generate compose" and "--generate kube", mirrored in engine.py for run and serve and in quadlet.py for "--generate quadlet". "--device /dev/dri" still passes them in for anyone who wants them. Signed-off-by: Oliver Walsh <owalsh@redhat.com>
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Follow-up to PR #2932 to resolve issue found while working on NVIDIA Vulkan.
Fixes image selection in
--backend=automode when GPU environment variables are set.Fixes GPU detection logic when running within the Windows WSL2 VM.
Stop passing through iGPUs by default when an NVIDIA is detected.