Distrobox with a different Nvidia driver version

[doganulus]

Some applications require a specific version of Nvidia drivers.

Can I install Nvidia drivers inside a distro (which is different than the host's driver version) and make GPU work?

[89luca89]

Yep, just don't use the --nvidia flag, and install your driver in the container

[doganulus]

I am getting the following error when installing the driver on a host with a different driver version. No --nvidia flag is used when creating the (debian12) distrobox.

Mismatching nvidia kernel module loaded

The NVIDIA driver that is being installed (version 525.147.05) does not match the nvidia
kernel module currently loaded (version 545.29.06).

The X server, OpenGL, and GPGPU applications may not work properly.

The easiest way to fix this is to reboot the machine once the installation has finished. You
can also stop the X server (usually by stopping the login manager, e.g. gdm3, sddm, or xdm),
manually unload the module ("modprobe -r nvidia"), and restart the X server.

Do you suggest any flag to ensure the driver isolation or any other distrobox feature for this use case?