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NVIDIA vGPU software graphics driver fails to load after upgrade on XenServer#

Description#

NVIDIA vGPU software graphics driver fails to load after an upgrade of NVIDIA vGPU software from an 11.<x> release to a 12.<x> release on XenServer. This issue occurs because the hypervisor name in the RPM package name has changed from xenserver to CitrixHypervisor.

The attempted upgrade fails its dependency checks as follows:

[root@localhost ~]# rpm -Uvh NVIDIA-vGPU-CitrixHypervisor-8.2-595.91.04.x86_64.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
        NVIDIA-vGPU-xenserver conflicts with NVIDIA-vGPU-CitrixHypervisor-1:8.2-595.91.04.x86_64

Workaround#

  1. Determine the full name of the installed RPM package for the Virtual GPU Manager.

    [root@localhost ~]# rpm -qa | grep NV
NVIDIA-vGPU-xenserver-8.2-580.159.01.x86_64

  2. Remove the installed RPM package for the Virtual GPU Manager.

    [root@localhost ~]# rpm -ev NVIDIA-vGPU-xenserver-8.2-580.159.01.x86_64
Preparing packages...
NVIDIA-vGPU-xenserver-1:8.2-580.159.01.x86_64

  3. Perform a fresh installation of the latest RPM package for the Virtual GPU Manager.

    [root@localhost ~]# rpm -ivh NVIDIA-vGPU-CitrixHypervisor-8.2-595.91.04.x86_64.rpm
Preparing...                          ################################# [100%]
Updating / installing...
   1:NVIDIA-vGPU-CitrixHypervisor-1:8.################################# [100%]

  4. Reboot the hypervisor host.

    [root@localhost ~]# reboot

Status#

Open

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