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Mikhail Chusavitin ffb85d55a2 iso: pin NVIDIA driver/DCGM to DGX OS 7.5.0-validated combo

590.48.01/DCGM 4.6.0-1 was never a deliberate compatibility choice — the
driver version traces back to a CDN 404 on the originally pinned
550.54.15 (commit 559fc29), and DCGM was bumped twice since purely
because NVIDIA pulled the previously-pinned core package from the repo
(6dee8f3, b2e177a). The 590 branch only has two point releases so far,
and its nvvs plugin fails dcgmi diag with "Detected driver major
version 0 is not between the required versions 346 and 2000" on H100 —
confirmed via a staging support bundle.

Switch to 580.126.20 / DCGM 4.5.2-1, the combo NVIDIA's own DGX OS 7.5.0
release notes validate for H100. Both packages confirmed present in the
NVIDIA CUDA debian12/x86_64 apt repo.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2026-07-06 13:33:52 +03:00

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ISO Build

bee ISO is built inside a Debian 12 builder container via iso/builder/build-in-container.sh.

Requirements

Docker Desktop or another Docker-compatible container runtime
Privileged containers enabled
Enough free disk space for builder cache, Debian live-build artifacts, NVIDIA driver cache, and CUDA userspace packages

Build On macOS

From the repository root:

sh iso/builder/build-in-container.sh

The script defaults to linux/amd64 builder containers, so it works on:

Intel Mac
Apple Silicon (M1 / M2 / M3 / M4) via Docker Desktop's Linux VM

You do not need to pass --platform manually for normal ISO builds.

Useful Options

Build with explicit SSH keys baked into the ISO:

sh iso/builder/build-in-container.sh --authorized-keys ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub

Force a clean rebuild of the builder image and build caches:

sh iso/builder/build-in-container.sh --clean-build

Use a custom cache directory:

sh iso/builder/build-in-container.sh --cache-dir /path/to/cache

Notes

The builder image is automatically rebuilt if the local tag exists for the wrong architecture.
The live ISO boots with Debian live-boot toram, so the read-only medium is copied into RAM during boot and the runtime no longer depends on the original USB/BMC virtual media staying present.
Target systems need enough RAM for the full compressed live medium plus normal runtime overhead, or boot may fail before reaching the TUI.
The NVIDIA variant installs DCGM 4 packages matched to the CUDA user-mode driver major version. For driver branch 580 / CUDA 13.x, the package family is datacenter-gpu-manager-4-cuda13 rather than legacy datacenter-gpu-manager.
Override the container platform only if you know why:

BEE_BUILDER_PLATFORM=linux/amd64 sh iso/builder/build-in-container.sh

The shipped ISO is still amd64.
Output ISO artifacts are written under dist/.

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