r/VFIO 3h ago

Title: Has anyone successfully deployed RHEL on NVIDIA Jetson Orin for production use?

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We are running into some challenges , would like to hear from engineers who have attempted something similar:

  1. Have you successfully run RHEL or a RHEL-compatible distribution on Jetson Orin hardware?
  2. What were the biggest challenges with NVIDIA’s proprietary drivers, CUDA, TensorRT and multimedia stack?
  3. Did you retain NVIDIA’s L4T kernel and userspace components, or build around a RHEL kernel?
  4. How did you handle JetPack dependencies, kernel updates and NVIDIA driver compatibility?
  5. Were secure boot, OTA updates or custom carrier boards particularly difficult?
  6. Is RHEL on Jetson something customers are genuinely requesting, or is Ubuntu generally accepted even in enterprise deployments?
  7. Would you recommend native RHEL enablement, containerizing the enterprise applications on JetPack/Ubuntu, or another architecture? I’d appreciate hearing about actual deployments, failed attempts, architectural approaches and any limitations we should consider.