How to access PCI device from a Docker container

General Discussions
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My host machine has the PCI driver installed for a device. I want to be able to access this same device from within my Docker container (running Ubuntu 14). Is this possible with Docker containers, and do I have to install the driver also in the container if so?

I would assume that since the container shares the same linux kernel as the host, that the container should be able to “see” the driver and hence talk to the device.

2

Di you manage to get this to work ?

3

see “–device” in https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/run/

you will need to make the drivers available inside the container as well - make sure to build them into your image.

This feature is only available for plain docker (docker run / docker-compose), and is still not available for swarm services (see: https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/25303)