Hot plugging and unplugging vCPUs causes a blue-screen crash in Windows VMs#

Description#

Hot plugging or unplugging vCPUs causes a blue-screen crash in Windows VMs that are running NVIDIA vGPU software graphics drivers.

When the blue-screen crash occurs, one of the following error messages may also be seen:

  • SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION(nvlddmkm.sys)
    
  • DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL(nvlddmkm.sys)
    

NVIDIA vGPU software graphics drivers do not support hot plugging and unplugging of vCPUs.

Status#

Closed

Ref. ##

2101499