immich script. Is it possible to add OpenVINO on an already working LXC after opting out?

[Scales82]

Hi Guys, As per title. I have a working immich LXC I dont wanna mess with too much. I opted out of using OpenVino and have disabled the machine learning in my instance. Id like to make a backup of my LXC and have a play with OpenVino. Is there a simple way to install this to match what the script would normally do? I dont want to break the container and/or its update functionality via script.
Thanks

[MickLesk]

Should actually be possible with these lines without any problems, right @vhsdream ?

  touch ~/.openvino
  tmp_dir=$(mktemp -d)
  pushd "$tmp_dir"
  curl -fsSLO https://github.com/intel/intel-graphics-compiler/releases/download/igc-1.0.17384.11/intel-igc-core_1.0.17384.11_amd64.deb
  curl -fsSLO https://github.com/intel/intel-graphics-compiler/releases/download/igc-1.0.17384.11/intel-igc-opencl_1.0.17384.11_amd64.deb
  curl -fsSLO https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/releases/download/24.31.30508.7/intel-opencl-icd_24.31.30508.7_amd64.deb
  curl -fsSLO https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/releases/download/24.31.30508.7/libigdgmm12_22.4.1_amd64.deb
  apt install -y ./*.deb
  popd
  rm -rf "$tmp_dir"
  dpkg -l | grep "intel-opencl-icd" | awk '{print $3}' >~/.intel_version

[vhsdream]

@Scales82 - @MickLesk has one part of it, but there are other things you need to do, and it's not exactly straightforward. Such is life.

Ensure device passthrough - without this it will never work

1. /dev/dri/card[number] and /dev/dri/renderD12[number] need to be accessible to the immich user. You can pass these through via the GUI:

2. Make sure the immich user is in the video and render groups (check from inside the LXC: groups immich. If the groups aren't in the output, then do usermod -aG video,render immich).

Install additional packages

1. Install the Intel packages from the above reply.
2. Then install patchelf from the Testing repo: apt install -t testing patchelf -y

Rebuild Immich Machine-learning with OpenVino support

I started writing all the things you'll need to do here, but then I realised we can just use the helper script to force an update, which will do the rest of the heavy-lifting for you.

Now, I think that as long as you have the empty file /root/.openvino, and as long as you have installed those Intel packages and created the /root/.intel_version file in the manner described above, you can trick the script into thinking Immich needs to be updated.

Just edit /root/.immich to have a lower version and save the file. Then I believe if you just run update, it should do everything else for you, including installing Machine-learning with Openvino support.

I'm glad you said you're going to take a backup of your LXC, because I have not tested this, but in theory it should work. Good luck!

[Scales82]

Thanks man. Im running a backup of the LXC now that it is stable. Will have a go and report back

[Scales82]

Seems to have worked, did your instructions and ran the update. turned on machine learning and ran facial recognition. the host is registering action on python when I run intel_gpu_top. And the tail log is registering faces detected. So think thats a win!