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+# NGC PyTorch GPU Sandbox
+
+Run an NGC PyTorch image from `nvcr.io` in a GPU sandbox and check that CUDA
+works from Python.
+
+NGC images keep libraries outside the paths that the
+[default policy](../../docs/how-it-works/policies/default-policy.mdx) grants,
+so `import torch` fails in a default sandbox. `policy.yaml` adds those paths.
+
+Run these commands from `examples/ngc-pytorch-gpu`. You need a gateway whose
+compute driver can attach a GPU (Docker or Podman with the NVIDIA Container
+Toolkit and CDI, Kubernetes with the NVIDIA device plugin, or the MicroVM
+driver with one GPU passed through), and the `openshell` CLI on the host.
+
+## 1. Run the check
+
+```shell
+openshell sandbox create \
+  --name torch-check \
+  --gpu \
+  --from nvcr.io/nvidia/pytorch:25.09-py3 \
+  --policy policy.yaml \
+  --no-keep --no-tty \
+  -- python -c 'import torch; print(torch.__version__, torch.cuda.is_available(), torch.cuda.device_count()); x = torch.ones(1024, device="cuda"); print("sum", (x * 2).sum().item())'
+```
+
+The first run pulls the image, which is several gigabytes. A working sandbox
+prints the PyTorch version, `True`, the GPU count, and `sum 2048.0`.
+`--no-keep` deletes the sandbox when the command exits.
+
+To use the policy for every sandbox you create, point
+`OPENSHELL_SANDBOX_POLICY` at it instead of passing `--policy`:
+
+```shell
+export OPENSHELL_SANDBOX_POLICY="$PWD/policy.yaml"
+```
+
+## 2. What fails without the policy
+
+Run the same command without `--policy` and the import fails:
+
+```text
+OSError: libmpi.so.40: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
+```
+
+The library exists. NGC images ship HPC-X under `/opt/hpcx`, and the loader
+cache points `libmpi.so.40` there. Landlock refuses the `open()` with `EACCES`,
+and glibc reports every refused candidate as "No such file or directory".
+`ls -l` and `ldconfig -p` still list the file because Landlock does not govern
+`stat()`, so neither command reveals the denial. To confirm a suspected path,
+grant it in a copy of the policy and run the command again.
+
+`policy.yaml` makes these additions to the default policy:
+
+| Path | Access | Needed by |
+|---|---|---|
+| `/opt` | Read-only | HPC-X, UCX, and other NGC libraries that PyTorch loads at import. |
+| `/sys` | Read-only | PyTorch's cpuinfo (`/sys/devices/system/cpu`); NCCL, NVML, and hwloc topology discovery (`/sys/bus/pci`, `/sys/class`, `/sys/devices/system/node`). |
+| `/dev/shm` | Read-write | PyTorch DataLoader workers and NCCL's shared-memory transport. |
+
+Without `/sys`, every PyTorch run starts with
+`Error in cpuinfo: failed to parse the list of possible processors in /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible`.
+The policy grants the whole tree because multi-GPU NCCL reads well beyond
+that one directory.
+
+`/proc` stays read-only. CUDA writes thread names during initialization,
+and the runtime brokers those writes without general `/proc` write access.
+OpenShell adds the GPU device nodes at runtime when the sandbox requests a GPU,
+so the policy does not list them.
+
+The policy defines no network rules, so the sandbox has no outbound access.
+Add network rules if your workload downloads models or datasets.
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+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2025-2026 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+# Filesystem policy for NGC (nvcr.io) GPU images such as
+# nvcr.io/nvidia/pytorch. It extends the default policy with the paths that
+# CUDA, PyTorch, NCCL, and HPC-X need. See README.md for the failures each
+# addition fixes.
+
+version: 1
+
+filesystem_policy:
+  include_workdir: true
+  read_only:
+    - /bin
+    - /usr
+    - /lib
+    - /etc
+    - /proc
+    - /var/log
+    - /dev/urandom
+    # NGC images install HPC-X, UCX, and other libraries under /opt. The
+    # loader cache resolves libmpi.so.40 there, so `import torch` fails
+    # without it.
+    - /opt
+    # Kernel-exported topology. PyTorch's cpuinfo reads
+    # /sys/devices/system/cpu; NCCL, NVML, and hwloc read /sys/bus/pci,
+    # /sys/class, and /sys/devices/system/node to discover PCI and NVLink
+    # topology.
+    - /sys
+  read_write:
+    - /tmp
+    - /dev/null
+    # PyTorch DataLoader workers and NCCL's shared-memory transport.
+    - /dev/shm
+
+landlock:
+  compatibility: best_effort
+
+# The check needs no outbound network access.
+network_policies: {}