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MaximusDJ
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Step by Step Tutorial/guide to enable Nvidia K6000 and Tesla K40 into my CentOS virtual machin

Dear community, this is Max from Italy.

I am a complete newby in the VMWARE community so I apologise for any possible stupid question.

I've did my best to google for a solution or to look within this forum but I was unsuccesful so I need now your help.

At least you can point me in the right direction...

ISSUE:

I have WIN10 and VMWARE 15 Pro installed.

I've created a VM with CentOS 7 on it and it seems to work fine.

Unfortunately there is no way for me to have my VM regognize the "full power" of my NVIDIA (physical) hardware inside my actual workstation.

Once loaded the VM, the GPU K6000 seems to be just a generic one where only 3GB of RAM can be adressed (instead of the 12GB on the card) while the Tesla k40 is not even seen within the VM. No options to configure them in the VM menu.

Since I want to run some engineering simulations in Matlab using my development code and this Linux VM environemnt, is there a way those two NVIDIA cards K6000 + K40 are recognized (like in the WIN10 one ) ?

thanks for any hints

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hahakiki2010
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Hi MaximusDJ ,

VM support graphic memory it's up to 3GB for now.

Click VM Setting -> Display, and you can change the amount of guest memory from the Graphics memory frame

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wila
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Hi,

Using VMware Workstation there is currently no possibility to pass-through your graphics adapter to your VM.

The only way to do so is by using another product.


For example, you can do this with VMware vSphere or Linux KVM.

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