Setup: environment baseline and platform abstraction

[rishika-y-gaur]

Set up a working WSL2 environment on target Intel hardware, establish what the platform supports, and make the repo run unmodified on both Linux and WSL2.

Investigation

• Set up Windows 11 + WSL2 + Ubuntu 24.04 + Docker Desktop (WSL2 backend). Document BIOS virtualization settings, WSL kernel version, and .wslconfig memory/CPU allocation
• Determine whether OpenVINO can enumerate and use the Intel GPU inside a WSL2 container
• Determine whether GStreamer VA-API hardware video decode works under WSL2. This is a different stack from OpenVINO GPU inference and must be tested separately
• Determine whether the Intel NPU is reachable under WSL2
• Investigate a GPU telemetry replacement for qmassa, which depends on DRM drivers that do not exist under WSL2

Platform abstraction

• Add platform detection exposed to both the Makefile and the shell scripts
• Add a WSL2 Docker Compose override with the correct device and volume mounts for WSL
• Have the Makefile select the WSL override automatically
• Replace hardcoded GPU device paths with a single resolver
• Make video/render group lookups conditional, with safe defaults on WSL2
• Fix host IP resolution so the MinIO and RabbitMQ UIs are reachable from a Windows browser
• Support render mode through WSLg
• Fix volume permissions and UID/GID handling under Docker Desktop

Expected done results

• Working WSL2 environment; docker run hello-world passes; baseline config captured
• Yes/no with evidence for GPU passthrough, hardware decode, and NPU support, with the required mounts documented where supported
• Telemetry recommendation with a proof-of-concept sample
• make run-lp works unmodified on Linux and WSL2, including render mode
• Web UIs reachable from Windows; no permission errors after a run
• Linux behaviour unchanged throughout