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    <title>topic Re: Can't Load nVIDIA 15.2 vGPU Driver in ESXi 8 Update 1 in ESXi Discussions</title>
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    <description>&lt;P&gt;The deed is done! Upon more digging, I found that the SR-IOV was not turned on in the BIOS. Turning it on there did not completely solve the problem. Once it was on, I had to allow SR-IOV in the PCI Hardware configuration of ESXi. Once I turned on SR-IOV for the video card I wanted, I rebooted the system, and presto, the error went away and NVIDIA-SMI gave me what I needed. The only caveat is that I still get the 'NVIDIA: Device Groups generation failed.' alert on startup. Does anyone know how I can fix that?&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2023 00:41:34 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>benevida</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2023-06-07T00:41:34Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Can't Load nVIDIA 15.2 vGPU Driver in ESXi 8 Update 1</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Can-t-Load-nVIDIA-15-2-vGPU-Driver-in-ESXi-8-Update-1/m-p/2971485#M288507</link>
      <description>&lt;DIV class=""&gt;&lt;P&gt;I’m trying to set up my lab.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Platform&lt;/STRONG&gt;: AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5955WX&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;GPU&lt;/STRONG&gt;: nVIDIA RTX a5000&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;OS&lt;/STRONG&gt;: VMWare vSphere ESXi 8.0 Update 1&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I signed up for an evaluation account and downloaded the drivers a month ago. I followed the guide to install the VIBs for the vGPU driver and the management daemon.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;NVD_bootbank_NVD-VMware_ESXi_8.0.0_Driver_525.105.14-1OEM.800.1.0.20613240.vib&lt;BR /&gt;NVD_bootbank_nvdgpumgmtdaemon_525.105.14-1OEM.700.1.0.15843807.vib&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;After installing both, I took the host out of maintenance mode, and restarted the host. To test the install, I first ran ‘/etc/init.d/nvdGpuMgmtDaemon status’ and received the expected output 'daemon_nvdGpuMgmtDaemon is running. Then, I ran nvidia-smi…&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I get the error ‘NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn’t communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.’&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I tried uninstalling the VIBs and re-installing them twice. Didn’t help. What should I do to troubleshoot?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Jun 2023 19:05:11 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>benevida</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-06-03T19:05:11Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Can't Load nVIDIA 15.2 vGPU Driver in ESXi 8 Update 1</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Can-t-Load-nVIDIA-15-2-vGPU-Driver-in-ESXi-8-Update-1/m-p/2971947#M288548</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;The deed is done! Upon more digging, I found that the SR-IOV was not turned on in the BIOS. Turning it on there did not completely solve the problem. Once it was on, I had to allow SR-IOV in the PCI Hardware configuration of ESXi. Once I turned on SR-IOV for the video card I wanted, I rebooted the system, and presto, the error went away and NVIDIA-SMI gave me what I needed. The only caveat is that I still get the 'NVIDIA: Device Groups generation failed.' alert on startup. Does anyone know how I can fix that?&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2023 00:41:34 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Can-t-Load-nVIDIA-15-2-vGPU-Driver-in-ESXi-8-Update-1/m-p/2971947#M288548</guid>
      <dc:creator>benevida</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2023-06-07T00:41:34Z</dc:date>
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