nvidia-smi can't connect to driver on GitHub-hosted GPU Runner.

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I have been trying to setup a GA workflow with the newly announced GPU Runners. I expected nvidia-smi to run on the runner out of the box, but I'm getting this error:

NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.

Ultimately I would like to run a docker container in my workflow with nvidia-container-toolkit, but the missing/wrong driver is the first blocker. It is undesired step to install a new driver in every run.

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[lkfortuna]

Hey there from Actions 👋 Thanks for providing this feedback! For our GPU images, we do not control what is installed on these images, as they are managed by NVIDIA. For feedback on what is installed on the images, you encourage you to also add that to the NVIDIA forums here. The more feedback they get on these, the more likely they are to install other tools on the images.

[ksikka]

Hi @lkfortuna There doesn't seem to be anyone from NVIDIA responding to the questions in the forum you linked to.

Is there anyone at NVIDIA you could nudge about this? I'm also experiencing an issue with their image:
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/github-nvidia-t4-image-nvrtc-library-missing/306265

[lkfortuna]

let me see what I can do