AcademySoftwareFoundation
Added RunTime set of images that are slimmer and a jupyter bonus
This is a "working draft" of a new set of ASWF docker images for "run-time" instead of CI. They are slimmer and only contain the build artifacts without any compiler. rt-vfxall is around 1.8GB when ci-vfxall is 2.6GB.
I've added a rt-vfxall-jupyter that contains a Jupyter notebook that is able to access full USD and GPUs, as shown in this screenshot:
(To run: docker run -it --rm --gpus=all -e DISPLAY=$DISPLAY -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix:rw -v ~/Downloads/Kitchen_set:/home/jovyan/work -p 8888:8888 aswftesting/rt-vfxall-jupyter:2020 )
I feel that these images should be quite generally useful as well, and probably easier to understand than the CI ones.
Any thoughts?
I've been experimenting with adding a real Xorg instance inside the docker container, with an extra xpra x server with VirtualGL in the middle. This in theory should allow a headless cloud machine to have hardware-accelerated OpenGL Xorg, with live redirection of the rendered images to a web server via xpra... See https://xpra.org/trac/wiki/Usage/OpenGL for reference...
This could enable live interaction with usdview from a web browser (in theory...), but that still requires to give the docker container access to a /dev/ttyX device which might not always be possible...
I've been trying to research ways of starting Xorg without TTY but so far no luck... The xpra+virtualgl part could be optional for the CI use case though as the running Xorg should have a dummy monitor attached, but for CodeBuild that might not be OK until we figure out a way to start Xorg without /dev/tty1...
I'm going to try what Qt can do with EGL and without X11... having Qt to abstract things around might be quite useful with PySide and Jupyter (see the usdrecord snippet that needs a Qt app and a QGLWidget).
Thanks JF, indeed I'll make sure I add more info in the readme once the images are ready! I haven't had much time to experiment further, but I wanted to make sure that the branch didn't keep diverging from the main one, I hope I'll try a few more things soon.