NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software Documentation - v12.0 through 12.4 Revision 02 (all) - Last updated December 21, 2021 - Send Feedback -
NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software Documentation v12.0 through 12.4 Revision 02
Learn how to use NVIDIA® RTX Virtual Workstation (vWS), NVIDIA Virtual Compute Server (vCS), NVIDIA Virtual PC, and NVIDIA Virtual Applications.
- What's New
- What's new in NVIDIA vGPU software for all supported hypervisors.
- Supported Products
- An at-a-glance summary of supported hardware, hypervisor software versions, and guest operating system (OS) releases for this release of NVIDIA virtual GPU software.
- Quick Start Guide
- Documentation for system administrators that provides minimal instructions for installing and configuring NVIDIA virtual GPU software.
Hypervisor Release Notes
- Citrix Hypervisor
- Current status, information on validated platforms, and known issues with NVIDIA virtual GPU software and hardware on Citrix Hypervisor.
- Linux with KVM
- Current status, information on validated platforms, and known issues with NVIDIA virtual GPU software and hardware on supported Linux with KVM hypervisors.
- Microsoft Windows Server
- Current status, information on validated platforms, and known issues with NVIDIA virtual GPU software and hardware on Microsoft Windows Server.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux with KVM
- Current status, information on validated platforms, and known issues with NVIDIA virtual GPU software and hardware on Red Hat Enterprise Linux with KVM.
- VMware vSphere
- Current status, information on validated platforms, and known issues with NVIDIA virtual GPU software and hardware on VMware vSphere.
Nutanix AHV is supported on this release of NVIDIA vGPU software as a generic Linux with KVM hypervisor.
Virtual GPU and Pass-Through GPU
- Virtual GPU Software User Guide
- NVIDIA virtual GPU software enables multiple virtual machines (VMs) to have simultaneous, direct access to a single physical GPU, using the same NVIDIA graphics drivers that are deployed on non-virtualized operating systems.
- gpumodeswitch User Guide
- NVIDIA virtual GPU requires GPUs that support compute mode and graphics mode to operate in graphics mode. If your GPU supports both modes but is supplied in compute mode, you must use gpumodeswitch to change the mode of the GPU to graphics mode.
Virtual GPU Licensing
See NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software License Server Documentation to find the documentation for the release of the license server that you are using.
- Client Licensing User Guide
- NVIDIA® RTX Virtual Workstation (vWS), NVIDIA Virtual PC (vPC), and NVIDIA Virtual Applications (vApps) are available as licensed products on NVIDIA GPUs. To enable the full features of the vGPU, configure the licensing for these products. vGPUs that require licensing run at a reduced capability until a license is acquired.
Virtual GPU Software Management
See NVIDIA Virtual GPU Management Pack for VMware vRealize Operations Documentation to find the documentation for the release of the NVIDIA Virtual GPU Management Pack for VMware vRealize Operations that you are using.
- Management SDK User Guide
- The NVIDIA virtual GPU software management SDK enables third party applications to monitor and control all NVIDIA physical GPUs and virtual GPUs that are running on virtualization hosts.