topic VMware ESXi-7.0U3d Nvidia Driver Linux 510 wont load in ESXi Discussions

VMware ESXi-7.0U3d Nvidia Driver Linux 510 wont load

Sp8nkyDevil — Tue, 10 May 2022 01:22:59 GMT

Error drm:nv_drm_load [Nvidia-drm] failed to allocate nvkmskapdevice

Error nv_drm_probe_devices [Nvidia-drm] failed to register device

VMware ESXi-7.0U3d-19482537-standard

HP ProLiant DL380 Gen 9 - running the latest firmware

VIRTUAL MACHINE SETTINGS

Nvidia Graphics Cards using PCI Passthrough

Reserve all guest memory (All Locked) - Enabled

Expose IOMMU to the guest OS - Disabled

Enable virtualized CPU performance counters - Disabled

Expose hardware assisted virtualization to the guest OS - Disabled

Boot - EFI

UEFI Secure Boot - Disabled

hypervisor.cpuid.v0 - FALSE

pciPassthru.use64bitMMIO - TRUE

pciPassthru.64bitMMIOSizeGB - 64

Works fine with Nvidia Driver 470.82.0 or bypassing ESXi and booting directly from HiveOS USB

Testing running the latest HiveOS with Kernel 5.10.0-hiveos #110 & Nvidia Driver 510.60.02

Re: VMware ESXi-7.0U3d Nvidia Driver Linux 510 wont load

scott28tt — Tue, 10 May 2022 06:04:51 GMT

Moderators should move your thread to the area for ESXi, now that I have reported it.

Re: VMware ESXi-7.0U3d Nvidia Driver Linux 510 wont load

gork201110141 — Fri, 20 May 2022 15:49:44 GMT

This works again with 515.43.04 beta driver, but you must install with the open source kernel module instead of the closed source module. This can be done with: `./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-515.43.04.run -m=kernel-open` and by setting the NVreg_OpenRmEnableUnsupportedGpus=1 in the nvidia.ko module. See the instructions here.