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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
    • Migration of multiple vGPU-enabled VMs between XenServer 9 hosts might fail
    • Wayland with Ubuntu 24.04 does not work with multi-vGPU VMs
    • Wayland sessions on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 with vGPUs on Blackwell-architecture GPUs are corrupted and unusable
    • Display resolutions can’t be changed in GNOME Settings with Wayland
    • Application windows disappear after display resolution change in Wayland
    • Remote desktop connections fail for vGPUs with 1 GB of frame buffer when used with Wayland
    • With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 on VMware vSphere, the VM crashes when graphical.target is set
    • The dmesg command reports non-fatal asserts and warnings
    • 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
    • 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 20.1 to a host running release 20.0 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 Quick Start Guide
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Virtual GPU Software Quick Start Guide#

Minimal instructions for installing and configuring NVIDIA virtual GPU software.

  • Getting NVIDIA vGPU Software
  • Installing Your NVIDIA vGPU Software License Server and License Files
  • Installing and Configuring NVIDIA vGPU Manager and the Guest Driver

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