Direct Installation of Drive OS on Bare Metal bypassing hypervisor

Autonomous Vehicles DRIVE AGX Orin DRIVE AGX Orin General
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Please provide the following info (tick the boxes after creating this topic):
Software Version
DRIVE OS 6.0.10.0
DRIVE OS 6.0.8.1
DRIVE OS 6.0.6
DRIVE OS 6.0.5
DRIVE OS 6.0.4 (rev. 1)
DRIVE OS 6.0.4 SDK
other

Target Operating System
Linux
QNX
other

Hardware Platform
DRIVE AGX Orin Developer Kit (940-63710-0010-300)
DRIVE AGX Orin Developer Kit (940-63710-0010-200)
DRIVE AGX Orin Developer Kit (940-63710-0010-100)
DRIVE AGX Orin Developer Kit (940-63710-0010-D00)
DRIVE AGX Orin Developer Kit (940-63710-0010-C00)
DRIVE AGX Orin Developer Kit (not sure its number)
other

SDK Manager Version
2.1.0
other

Host Machine Version
native Ubuntu Linux 20.04 Host installed with SDK Manager
native Ubuntu Linux 20.04 Host installed with DRIVE OS Docker Containers
native Ubuntu Linux 18.04 Host installed with DRIVE OS Docker Containers
other

Dear team,

Is it feasible to install Drive OS Linux directly on bare metal without utilizing a hypervisor or bypassing hypervisor?

Because for our current implementation we don’t require multiple OS and hence the virtualization.

If its feasible, is it possible to access GPU and hardware accelerators directly without the hypervisor?

Please provide a high-level overview of the steps required to achieve this configuration if its feasible.

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Dear @saurabh.sinalkar,
AFAIK, the request is not feasible. Let me check internally and get back to you.

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Dear @SivaRamaKrishnaNV,

Any updates did you receive for this with the internal team?

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You don’t want to install DRIVE OS as part of guest OS VM?

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We don’t want hypervisor & virtual machine in the software stack, need to install Drive OS directly on bare metal.

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We officially support only AV/Hypervisor environment.

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So there is no way we can bypass hypervisor & cannot access SOC GPU & hardware accelerators directly? Is our understanding correct?

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Yes. You are correct

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Ok @SivaRamaKrishnaNV, thanks for the quick confirmation.

So if i want to run the applications directly on Bare Metal without using Drive OS, partition and foundation services provided, is that possible?

If we compare it with Jetson Orin architecture we can use GPU and hardware accelerators directly through Jetson Linux (L4T) or any other OS without the requirement of Hypervisor and Foundation services as shown from the software architecture attached below.

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So similar to Jetson Orin is it possible to achieve this in Drive Orin?

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All our AV application development SDK APIs like CUDA, NvMedia, TensorRT, DW are part of DRIVE OS. It will run on a VM.

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