Basically title; Better to run swarmui on a vm or docker container ?
#vm vs docker
violet stream
Ease: docker
Security: eh idk but docker's probably fine
Quality: obviously docker. VMs with gpu passthrough are a hellscape and often have performance issues and etc. docker kinda just works
peak rapids
Hmm, ok. I'll try that out tomorrowz
I still wonder security wise if it's not vm that's better? I'm saying something weird maybe now but what IF the image that you open is infected. Since you have to open the image on your local machine
violet stream
if an image file is infected unfortunately you're currently running discord and anyone can send anyone an image on discord so you're already screwed
which is to say, that basically doesn't happen and if it does swarm is not your primary concern at all
if you're hyperparanoid about security, set up a full separate machine disconnected from the internet for whatever you're worried about
wet lichen
Popular image file formats are not very capable of carrying malware (tho video formats did have their fair share of exploits). How people get owned in ComfyUI is installing a sketchy custom node or a popular custom node authors github account gets hacked (pushing an exploit into the source code). These run python code, so the concern is what the python executable has access to on your machine
And yeah GPU inside VMs is hard.
I aborted my attempt to migrate my main desktop machine to Linux because i couldn't get GPU VM passtrough working properly (so that i could have performant Windows as a fallback). I plan to retry this year