NVIDIA GRID vGPU driver

[SebastiaanDirks]

Thanks for the work you did on this! I'm personally a bit confused as to which driver I need to be using here. Is this publicly available for download?

[intdel]

So what is the answer to this question? I have the same Issue

[jaimu97]

There is a 90 day free trial available here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/resources/vgpu-evaluation/

Use the driver download page and change "Product Type" to "GRID": https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx

[intdel]

@kwibjo Thanks for your link. But that only has VMware and Citrix drivers? What am I missing?

EDIT: You actually have to sign up for the trial.

[jaimu97]

After some digging I found Google hosts downloads of the most up to date drivers here: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/gpus/grid-drivers-table

[intdel]

Very cool. Thanks

[SebastiaanDirks]

Those are the incorrect drivers unfortunately. You have to sign up for the nvidia license

[octopusknives]

I was wondering where you got NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-460.32.04-vgpu-kvm.run from?

I found it on an open directory by searching the file name with google. It will be in an archive called NVIDIA-GRID-Linux-KVM-460.32.04-460.32.03-461.33.zip, although searching the filename of the zip doesn't return any meaningful results.

Since I don't have the original, I can't be 100% certain that it hasn't been tampered with, but the SHA256 of NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-460.32.03-grid.run file in the archive matches the one hosted by google, so I am inclined to trust it.

Edit: The windows files are nvidia signed too.

[Marietto2008]

It is very clear :

Caution: The drivers provided on this page are for use with Compute Engine only. If you need drivers for other platforms, see the NVIDIA® Driver Download page.

[Marietto2008]

I didn't understand this :

Nvidia certifies Red Hat Enterprise Linux KVM for use with their vGPU technology, but they also provide a Linux KVM package which we will be covering here.

it seems that Red Hat Enterprise provide their own drivers,so we don't need to grab them from the nvidia 90 days trial application ? Is just enough to grab the Red Hat Enterprise Linux distro ?

[DualCoder]

I didn't understand this :

Nvidia certifies Red Hat Enterprise Linux KVM for use with their vGPU technology, but they also provide a Linux KVM package which we will be covering here.

it seems that Red Hat Enterprise provide their own drivers,so we don't need to grab them from the nvidia 90 days trial application ? Is just enough to grab the Red Hat Enterprise Linux distro ?

The fact that RHEL is certified only means that NVIDIA has validated that it works properly, and they may deny enterprise support if you are not using a certified server/gpu/os combination (I think). Even if you are using RHEL you still need to download the drivers from NVIDIA in the form of a ".rpm" package and install it as described in their documentation: https://docs.nvidia.com/grid/latest/grid-vgpu-user-guide/index.html#install-vgpu-package-red-hat-el-kvm. I.e the drivers are not included in the RHEL distribution.

[aaravrav]

Hello, I found this archive where the CORRECT drivers are available! https://veil-update.mashtab.org/drivers/nvidia_drivers

[aaravrav]

https://update.spacevm.ru/drivers/nvidia_drivers/

[Marietto2008]

Yeah,unfortunately we should activate it by asking the permission to nvidia. They give this permission,but for a limited amount of time. I gave up.

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[DocMAX]

Anyone got a link for the new 15.2 drivers?

[aaravrav]

You can find more by this link: https://www.google.com/search?q=intext%3A%22index+of+%2F%22+%22NVIDIA-GRID-Linux-KVM%22

[Marietto2008]

Hello to everyone.

What kind of benefit is there,using the nVidia grid drivers on my RTX 2080 ti instead of using qemu + kvm ? I often use a lot of virtualized operating systems and I use qemu + kvm on linux and bhyve on FreeBSD. I'm the only one to use my PC. And I don't like to play videogames.

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[aaravrav]

Hello to everyone. What kind of benefit is there,using the nVidia grid drivers on my RTX 2080 ti instead of using qemu + kvm ? I often use a lot of virtualized operating systems and I use qemu + kvm on linux and bhyve on FreeBSD. I'm the only one to use my PC. And I don't like to play videogames. … On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 5:47 PM Aarav @.> wrote: You can find more by this link: https://www.google.com/search?q=intext%3A%22index+of+%2F%22+%22NVIDIA-GRID-Linux-KVM%22 — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#7 (comment)>, or unsubscribe https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAFYNC7BDCLCYXMP3WEB52DXAV4H3ANCNFSM42GPU4OQ . You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: @.> -- Mario.

There is little benefit then, if it might be more useful to do single gpu passthrough if you are running gpu bound/intensive programs

[Marietto2008]

Is there a way to make work the nvidia grid driver forever ?