How to run sample VART models (Xilinx Vitis AI) on Azure NP 20s VM with Alveo U250 Deployment VM XRT 2021.1 - Ubuntu 20.04 Gen 1 Image ?

Question

Hello,

I have acquired an NP20s VM on azure and the image is Alveo U250 Deployment VM XRT 2021.1 - Ubuntu 20.04 Gen 1.
I am trying to run the sample resnet 50 Vitis AI model by following this - For-Cloud.
I am getting the following error when I run the final command -

/workspace/demo/VART/resnet50 > ./resnet50 /usr/share/vitis_ai_library/models/resnet50/resnet50.xmodel  
WARNING: Logging before InitGoogleLogging() is written to STDERR  
I0608 06:28:11.426890   362 main.cc:292] create running for subgraph: subgraph_conv1  
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'  
  what():  Error: failed to create XRM context  
Aborted (core dumped)  

I think this is because of some vitis AI setup issue or the Alveo card issue. I am not sure about which all commands I have to run for the setup as I am using an image that has Xilinx Vitis AI built in but the steps on the README are for new installation.

Answer 1

@Rishabh Anand
I understand you are running into the above error when using VART models on your Azure VM.

I believe this issue is more related to the software which is offered on the Azure Marketplace. Support for this software is not provided by Azure but you can reach out to them via the support methods from this link.

https://www.xilinx.com/support.html

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