country_code
Skip to main content
Ctrl+K
NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software Documentation - Home NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software Documentation - Home

NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software Documentation

NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software Documentation - Home NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software Documentation - Home

NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software Documentation

Table of Contents

  • What's New
    • Updates by Release
    • Resolved Issues
  • Supported Products
    • XenServer Support
    • Linux with KVM Support
    • Microsoft Azure Local Support
    • Microsoft Windows Server Support
    • Nutanix AHV Support
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux with KVM Support
    • Ubuntu Support
    • VMware vSphere ESXi Support
  • Quick Start Guide
    • Getting NVIDIA vGPU Software
    • Installing Your NVIDIA vGPU Software License Server and License Files
    • Installing and Configuring NVIDIA vGPU Manager and the Guest Driver

Hypervisor Release Notes

  • XenServer
    • Release Notes
    • Validated Platforms
    • Known Product Limitations
    • Resolved Issues
    • Known Issues
  • Linux with KVM
    • Release Notes
    • Validated Platforms
    • Known Product Limitations
    • Resolved Issues
    • Known Issues
  • Microsoft Azure Local
    • Release Notes
    • Validated Platforms
    • Known Product Limitations
    • Resolved Issues
    • Known Issues
  • Microsoft Windows Server
    • Release Notes
    • Validated Platforms
    • Known Product Limitations
    • Resolved Issues
    • Known Issues
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux with KVM
    • Release Notes
    • Validated Platforms
    • Known Product Limitations
    • Resolved Issues
    • Known Issues
  • Ubuntu
    • Release Notes
    • Validated Platforms
    • Known Product Limitations
    • Resolved Issues
    • Known Issues
  • VMware vSphere
    • Release Notes
    • Validated Platforms
    • Known Product Limitations
    • Resolved Issues
    • Known Issues

Known Issues

  • Known Issues
    • 19.0, 19.1 Only: Purple screen crashes might occur on ESXi hosts with multiple GPUs
    • 19.0-19.4 Only: The console or RDP session is black on Windows vGPU VMs
    • 19.0-19.4 Only: Intermittent deadlock occurs in the NVIDIA Direct3D11 user-mode driver
    • 19.0-19.4 Only: On Windows hypervisors, vGPU utilization is reported as 0%
    • 19.0-19.4 Only: vGPU migration fails for GPUs based on the NVIDIA Ampere and later GPU architectures
    • 19.3, 19.4 Only: GLX does not work after the NVIDIA vGPU software graphics driver is installed from an RPM package file
    • 19.0-19.3 Only: Maxwell-architecture vGPU VMs fail to start
    • 19.0-19.2 Only: Kernel module nvidia.ko fails to load with kernel versions since 5.14.0-570.26.1
    • vGPUs created with a vendor-specific VFIO framework on Ubuntu do not support Console VNC
    • NVIDIA vGPU software does not support Ubuntu 22.04 with an upgraded HWE kernel
    • Linux graphics driver installation from a .run file fails
    • 19.0-19.3 Only: GPU device is unavailable on Windows 11 VMs with more than 1 TB of memory
    • Default client configuration token folder missing on Windows client VMs
    • Omnissa IDD, not the NVIDIA vGPU software graphics driver is driving the display in Windows 11 24H2 VMs
    • vGPU VM fails to boot with error vmiop-display unable to reserve vgpu
    • NVIDIA Control Panel is not available in multiuser environments
    • NVIDIA Control Panel crashes if a user session is disconnected and reconnected
    • VM assigned multiple fractional vGPUs from the same GPU hangs
    • CUDA profilers cannot gather hardware metrics on NVIDIA vGPU
    • NVIDIA vGPU software graphics driver for Windows sends a remote call to ngx.download.nvidia.com
    • Multiple RDP session reconnections on Windows Server 2022 can consume all frame buffer
    • VM with multiple legacy fractional vGPUs on the same GPU fails to boot
    • On NVIDIA H100, creation of multiple compute instances after deletion of existing compute instances fails
    • NLS client fails to acquire a license with the error The allowed time to process response has expired
    • NVIDIA vGPU software graphics driver fails to load on KVM-based hypervsiors
    • With multiple active sessions, NVIDIA Control Panel incorrectly shows that the system is unlicensed
    • VP9 and AV1 decoding with web browsers are not supported on Microsoft Windows Server 2019
    • Ubuntu guest driver initialization fails with vGPUs and GPUs that support SR-IOV
    • nvidia-smi ignores the second NVIDIA vGPU device added to a Microsoft Windows Server 2016 VM
    • After an upgrade of the Linux graphics driver from an RPM package in a licensed VM, licensing fails
    • After an upgrade of the Linux graphics driver from a Debian package, the driver is not loaded into the VM
    • Desktop session freezes when a VM is migrated to or from a host running an NVIDIA vGPU software 14 release
    • Application or vGPU VM crashes when multiple application instances are launched
    • The reported NVENC frame rate is double the actual frame rate
    • VM fails after a second vGPU is assigned to it
    • Hypervisor host reboots when multiple cloned VMs are simultaneously powered on or migrated
    • NVENC does not work with Teradici Cloud Access Software on Windows
    • When a licensed client deployed by using VMware instant clone technology is destroyed, it does not return the license
    • A licensed client might fail to acquire a license if a proxy is set
    • Session connection fails with four 4K displays and NVENC enabled on a 2Q, 3Q, or 4Q vGPU
    • Disconnected sessions cannot be reconnected or might be reconnected very slowly with NVWMI installed
    • For some accounted processes, nvidia-smi incorrectly reports maximum memory use of 0 MiB
    • Windows VM crashes during Custom (Advanced) driver upgrade
    • VMs with vGPUs on GPUs based on the NVIDIA Ampere architecture fail to power on
    • Linux VM hangs after vGPU migration to a host running a newer vGPU manager version
    • NVIDIA A100 HGX 80GB vGPU names shown as Graphics Device by nvidia-smi
    • Idle Teradici Cloud Access Software session disconnects from Linux VM
    • GPU Operator doesn’t support vGPU on GPUs based on architectures before NVIDIA Turing
    • No virtual GPU types are listed in Citrix XenCenter
    • Idle NVIDIA A100, NVIDIA A40, and NVIDIA A10 GPUs show 100% GPU utilization
    • NVIDIA vGPU software graphics driver fails to load after upgrade on XenServer
    • Windows guest VMs with vGPUs or GPUs with large BAR memory settings fail to boot to the desktop in UEFI mode
    • Guest VM frame buffer listed by nvidia-smi for vGPUs on GPUs that support SRIOV is incorrect
    • Migrated VM with more than two vGPUs crashes on destination host
    • VMs fail to boot on RHV 4.4
    • Driver upgrade in a Linux guest VM with multiple vGPUs might fail
    • NVIDIA Control Panel fails to start if launched too soon from a VM without licensing information
    • VNC client session goes blank and console VNC is corrupted when the guest driver is uninstalled
    • Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops session corruption occurs in the form of residual window borders
    • Omnissa Horizon clients cannot connect to a Windows 10 2004 VM with multiple displays
    • Suspend and resume between hosts running different versions of the vGPU manager fails
    • On Linux, a VMware Horizon 7.12 session freezes after a switch to full screen
    • On Linux, a VMware Horizon 7.12 session with two 4K displays freezes
    • On Linux, the frame rate might drop to 1 after several minutes
    • Frame buffer consumption grows with Omnissa Horizon over Blast Extreme
    • Citrix XenCenter displays misleading information about vGPU types
    • Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops connection freezes initially
    • Microsoft DDA fails with some GPUs
    • DWM crashes randomly occur in Windows VMs
    • NVIDIA Control Panel fails to launch in a platform layer or published image
    • Remote desktop session freezes with assertion failure and XID error 43 after migration
    • Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops session freezes when the desktop is unlocked
    • NVIDIA vGPU software graphics driver fails after Linux kernel upgrade with DKMS enabled
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS 6 VMs hang during driver installation
    • On XenServer, all vGPUs in a VM must be of the same type
    • Console VGA cannot be disabled
    • Console VNC is unusable with Xorg on multiple vGPUs in a VM
    • Blue screen crash occurs or no devices are found after VM reset
    • Tesla T4 is enumerated as 32 separate GPUs by VMware vSphere ESXi
    • Migrating a VM configured with NVIDIA vGPU software release 19.1 to a host running release 19.0 fails
    • Users’ sessions may freeze during vMotion migration of VMs configured with vGPU
    • Migration of VMs configured with vGPU stops before the migration is complete
    • ECC memory settings for a vGPU cannot be changed by using NVIDIA X Server Settings
    • Changes to ECC memory settings for a Linux vGPU VM by nvidia-smi might be ignored
    • Incorrect GPU type shown for Quadro RTX 8000 GPUs in Citrix XenCenter
    • NVIDIA Notification Icon prevents log off of Citrix Published Application user sessions
    • Host core CPU utilization is higher than expected for moderate workloads
    • H.264 encoder falls back to software encoding on 1Q vGPUs with a 4K display
    • H.264 encoder falls back to software encoding on 2Q vGPUs with 3 or more 4K displays
    • Frame capture while the interactive logon message is displayed returns blank screen
    • RDS sessions do not use the GPU with Microsoft Windows Server as guest OS
    • VMware vMotion fails gracefully under heavy load
    • View session freezes intermittently after a Linux VM acquires a license
    • When the scheduling policy is fixed share, GPU utilization is reported as higher than expected
    • Benign warnings during Virtual GPU Manager installation or uninstallation after hypervisor upgrade
    • Benign not in gzip format messages during Virtual GPU Manager installation or uninstallation
    • License is not acquired in Windows VMs
    • nvidia-smi reports that vGPU migration is supported on all hypervisors
    • NVIDIA Control Panel Crashes in a VM connected to two 4K displays
    • Hot plugging and unplugging vCPUs causes a blue-screen crash in Windows VMs
    • GPU resources not available error during VMware instant clone provisioning
    • Module load failed during VIB downgrade from R390 to R384
    • vGPU guest VM driver not properly loaded on servers with more than 512 GB or 1 TB or more of system memory
    • Luxmark causes a segmentation fault on an unlicensed Linux client
    • On Linux, 3D applications run slowly when windows are dragged
    • A segmentation fault in DBus code causes nvidia-gridd to exit on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS
    • No Manage License option available in NVIDIA X Server Settings by default
    • Licenses remain checked out when VMs are forcibly powered off
    • Memory exhaustion can occur with vGPU profiles that have 512 Mbytes or less of frame buffer
    • VM bug checks after the guest VM driver for Windows 10 RS2 is installed
    • On XenServer 7.0, VMs unexpectedly reboot and XenServer crashes or freezes
    • With no NVIDIA driver installed, XenServer misidentifies Tesla M10 cards
    • vGPU VM fails to boot in ESXi if the graphics type is Shared
    • GNOME Display Manager (GDM) fails to start on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 and CentOS 7.0
    • NVIDIA Control Panel fails to start and reports that “you are not currently using a display that is attached to an Nvidia GPU”
    • VM configured with more than one vGPU fails to initialize vGPU when booted
    • A VM configured with both a vGPU and a passthrough GPU fails to start the passthrough GPU
    • vGPU allocation policy fails when multiple VMs are started simultaneously
    • Before Horizon agent is installed inside a VM, the Start menu’s sleep option is available
    • vGPU-enabled VMs fail to start, nvidia-smi fails when VMs are configured with too high a proportion of the server’s memory.
    • On reset or restart VMs fail to start with the error VMIOP: no graphics device is available for vGPU…
    • nvidia-smi shows high GPU utilization for vGPU VMs with active Horizon sessions
    • Video goes blank when run in loop in Windows Media Player
    • Local VGA console is momentarily unblanked when Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops changes resolution of the VM desktop
    • VM bugchecks on shutdown/restart when Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops is installed and NVIDIA driver is uninstalled or upgraded.
    • Application frame rate may drop when running Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops at 2560×1600 resolution.
    • Windows VM BSOD
    • Windows VM BSOD when upgrading NVIDIA drivers over a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops session
    • XenCenter does not allow vGPUs to be selected as a GPU type for Linux VMs
    • If X server is killed on a RHEL7 VM running vGPU, XenCenter console may not automatically switch to text console
    • Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops shows only a black screen when connected to a vGPU VM

Installation, Administration, and Management

  • User Guide
    • Introduction to NVIDIA vGPU Software
    • Installing and Configuring NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager
    • Using GPU Pass-Through
    • Installing the NVIDIA vGPU Software Graphics Driver
    • Modifying a VM’s NVIDIA vGPU Configuration
    • Monitoring GPU Performance
    • Changing Scheduling Behavior for Time-Sliced vGPUs and MIG-Backed, Time-Sliced vGPUs
    • Troubleshooting
    • Virtual GPU Types Reference
    • Allocation Strategies
    • Configuring x11vnc for Checking the GPU in a Linux Server
    • Disabling NVIDIA Notification Icon for Citrix Published Application User Sessions
    • XenServer Basics
    • XenServer vGPU Management
    • XenServer Performance Tuning
  • Client Licensing User Guide
    • Introduction to NVIDIA vGPU Software Licensing
    • Configuring a Licensed Client of NVIDIA License System
    • Advanced Topics
    • Troubleshooting
  • Management SDK User Guide
    • Introduction to the NVIDIA vGPU Software Management SDK
    • Managing vGPUs from a hypervisor by using NVML
    • Managing vGPUs from a guest VM
  • Virtual GPU Software Supported Products
  • Nutanix AHV Support
Is this page helpful?

Nutanix AHV Support#

Nutanix AHV is supported on this release of NVIDIA vGPU software as a generic Linux with KVM hypervisor. See Virtual GPU Software for Generic Linux with KVM Release Notes.

previous

Microsoft Windows Server Support

next

Red Hat Enterprise Linux with KVM Support

NVIDIA NVIDIA
Privacy Policy | Your Privacy Choices | Terms of Service | Accessibility | Corporate Policies | Product Security | Contact

Copyright © 2013-2026, NVIDIA Corporation.

Last updated on Jul 27, 2026.