create-openvino-lxc

A Proxmox VE script to create an LXC container with Intel OpenVINO and GPU acceleration using Intel integrated graphics.

Features

• Creates a Debian 13 (Trixie) unprivileged LXC container
• Configures Intel iGPU passthrough for hardware acceleration
• Installs OpenVINO 2025 with GPU support
• Installs Intel legacy compute runtime for pre-Gen12 GPUs (Skylake, Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake, etc.)
• Configures VA-API for video acceleration
• Sets up a Python virtual environment with OpenVINO

Requirements

• Proxmox VE host with Intel integrated graphics
• Intel GPU visible at /dev/dri/renderD128
• ZFS storage (script uses local-zfs by default)

Supported GPUs

This script includes the Intel legacy compute runtime which supports:

• Broadwell
• Skylake (HD Graphics 530, etc.)
• Kaby Lake
• Coffee Lake
• Apollo Lake / Gemini Lake
• Ice Lake

For newer GPUs (Tiger Lake, Alder Lake, etc.), you may need to modify the script to use the standard (non-legacy) Intel compute runtime.

Usage

# Make script executable
chmod +x create-openvino-lxc.sh

# Run with default settings (auto-selects next VMID, hostname: openvino-gpu)
./create-openvino-lxc.sh

# Run with custom hostname
./create-openvino-lxc.sh my-openvino-container

The script will prompt you to set the root password for the container.

After Installation

Access the container

pct enter <CTID>

Use OpenVINO as ovuser

su - ovuser
source ~/openvino-env/bin/activate
python3 -c "import openvino as ov; print(ov.Core().available_devices)"

Use GPU as root

GPU access requires a login shell to load group memberships:

# From inside container after pct enter:
su -l root -c 'clinfo -l'

# Or from Proxmox host:
pct exec <CTID> -- su -l root -c 'clinfo -l'

Check GPU status

clinfo -l      # OpenCL devices
vainfo         # VA-API status

Configuration

Edit the script to modify these defaults:

• MEMORY=4096 - Container RAM in MB
• CORES=4 - CPU cores
• DISK_SIZE=16 - Root disk size in GB
• STORAGE="local-zfs" - Proxmox storage pool

License

MIT