Running job inside privileged docker on 'machine' executor

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Hello!

I need to run my job inside a privileged Docker container. According to CircleCI2.0 docs, this is possible when using a ‘machine’ executor.

Is there any way to configure config.yml such that my jobs will be executed on the docker container (which runs on the VM machine?)

i.e, something like this (this is a plain example but will help demonstrate what I’m trying to do):

version: 2.1

jobs:
  say-hello:
    machine:
      image: ubuntu-2004-cuda-11.2:202103-01
    runs-on:
      docker:
          image: docker.io/account/example:latest # All steps will run inside this container
          privileged: True

    steps:
      - checkout
      - run:
          command: "echo hi there" # This will run inside the docker container
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Not that I’m aware of no. You’d need to spin the container up and then run commands inside of it just as you would on a local machine. So some combination of docker run, docker exec, Bash scripts, Docker entrypoints, etc.

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