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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/.