Setup Procedure on Azure NV6 VM

Create Azure Virtual Machine

• Recommend NV6
• Make sure to add external storage during the creation process (256GiB recommended)
• Follow this link after creating the VM to enable the external storage
• Recommend changing the owner and group of the directory you mounted disk to $USER

Install Pre-requisites

• Follows the steps 2 ~ 4 in this link

Modify docker configuration and runtime environment

• Stop to docker using
  sudo service docker stop

• Modify daemon.json file in /etc/docker/ (If it doesn't exist create one) as following:

{
    "runtimes": {
        "nvidia": {
            "path": "nvidia-container-runtime",
            "runtimeArgs": []
        }
    },
    "default-runtime":"nvidia",
    "data-root":"/path_to_mount_directory"
}

• "data-root" : Pass the path to the mount directory that has 256GiB

• "default-runtime" : Setting environment variable to use nvidia runtime by default

  • This enables docker's access(?) to GPU

• Start docker
  sudo service docker start

• Run docker info and check if the output is similar to below

 Default Runtime: nvidia
 ...
 ...
 Docker Root Dir: /path_to_mount_directory

Follow the instructions in VisualRoad main repo from Step4

• Install ue4-docker

sudo pip3 install ue4-docker
sudo ue4-docker setup

• Build ue4 docker image In order to build the ue4 docker image, you need to create EpicGames account and link/connect(?) to github account Once you created the account do following steps:

ue4-docker build --cuda=9.2 --no-minimal --no-full --exclude=debug --exclude=templates 4.22.0

• Build VisualRoad benchmark image

git clone https://github.com/uwdb/visualroad
cd visualroad
docker build -t visualroad/core .

• Install docker-compose Follow the instruction in this page

• Generate Video!!

docker-compose run generator -s 1 -w 1920 -t 1080 -d 30 -r 1 test  # this is example

Modify the parameters based on your needs. Run docker-compose run generator -h to see all available options