WSL2 - installing docker enginer in WSL2

See: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/install-docker-in-wsl-2-without-docker-desktop

# Install Docker, you can ignore the warning from Docker about using WSL
curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh
sudo sh get-docker.sh

# Add your user to the Docker group
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

# Sanity check that both tools were installed successfully
docker --version
docker compose version

In ~/.profile:

if grep -q "\-WSL2" /proc/version > /dev/null 2>&1; then
    if service docker status 2>&1 | grep -q "is not running"; then
        wsl.exe --distribution "${WSL_DISTRO_NAME}" --user root \
            --exec /usr/sbin/service docker start > /dev/null 2>&1
    fi
fi

WSL2 - installing full Nvidia CUDA support for docker containers

Install CUDA drivers 12.8.1 in Windows.

WSL2 Guides:

• https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/wsl-user-guide/index.html
• https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/cloud-native/container-toolkit/latest/install-guide.html

Also had to:

sudo apt list cuda-toolkit --all-versions
sudo apt-get install cuda-toolkit=12.8.1-1

Checks:

/usr/local/cuda/bin/nvcc --version
nvidia-smi

Install CuDNN in Ubuntu/WSL:

wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cudnn/9.8.0/local_installers/cudnn-local-repo-ubuntu2404-9.8.0_1.0-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i cudnn-local-repo-ubuntu2404-9.8.0_1.0-1_amd64.deb
sudo cp /var/cudnn-local-repo-ubuntu2404-9.8.0/cudnn-*-keyring.gpg /usr/share/keyrings/
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install cudnn-cuda-12

This should work:

docker run -it --gpus all nvidia/cuda:12.8.1-devel-ubuntu24.04 nvidia-smi