Visually Remote Into a Linux Instance Using an NVIDIA GPU for GUI/ Application Rendering

Alberto Scicali
Nov 2 · 1 min read

I’m currently working on a project that necessitates me to visually remote into a headless AWS Ubuntu instance and utilize the Tesla M60 GPU for various visual/rendering tasks.

There is a particular way you need to setup your instance in order to simulate a non-existent screen that your GPU will actually render towards. So, here are the steps needed to setup your instance to effectively do this (this assumes a fresh instance):

Overall it’s pretty simple, but it took some experimentation to get everything properly working together.

Cheers!

Alberto Scicali

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Software and Research Engineer. Commonly referred to as a Bear.

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