There are many Linux distros, Mistika Workflows will work in many of them but it may fail in some others, specially if they are too old or too recent.
These are the basic installation guidelines on linux
GPU: On Linux systems Mistika Workflows requires a modern NVIDIA GPU (Pascal generation or later) with NVIDIA proprietary drivers installed:
* For physical machines install a modern NVIDIA proprietary driver ("Nouveau" drivers will not work), the more modern drivers the better.
* Mistika Workflows must be started in a graphics session (even if you only want to render), and it will stop working if that session is closed.
* In the case of VM instances on AWS or other cloud providers you will need to install the "NVIDIA Datacenter driver". (a cuda driver is not enough).
Mistika Workflows also requires an NVIDIA OpenCL / OpenGL active session. Basic "virtual" drivers or GPU emulation will not work. When running in a GPU partition (as most cloud services offer) Mistika Workflows requires the NVIDIA Datacenter driver installed.
In general you will also need to connect to the VM via a remote desktop or VNC server with GPU support, such as x11vnc.
Other hardware requisites explained in the Mistika Workflows supported configurations article.
Python Version and upgrades of Python code between versions:
Mistika Workflows requires a specific python version (not coming with your distro) and it needs to be installed as explained below. The Mistika Workflows installer for Linux will NOT install Python (it only does so on Windows).
The Python code executed by Python based nodes is stored in the .mwf files. After a Mistika Workflows upgrade, if a python node has been upgraded your .mwf will still contian the old Python code from the version that was used to create it. If you experience problems with those nodes you can easily upgrade their Python code, just select the node and click one time on: Contextual menu -> Code update: Finder to node
Supported Linux distros:
Currently these are the linux distros fully tested and supported for Mistika Workflows (other distros may also work, but they are not tested by SGO personal, so the potential installation differences are not documented).
- Rocky Linux 9.3. Both the Rocky O.S and Python needs to be installed and configured as described in this document:
https://support.sgo.es/a/solutions/articles/1000322222
- (Other supported distros will be added below in the future)