NVIDIA Control Panel fails to start and reports that “you are not currently using a display that is attached to an Nvidia GPU”#
Description#
When you launch NVIDIA Control Panel on a VM configured with vGPU, it fails to start and reports that you are not using a display attached to an NVIDIA GPU. This happens because Windows is using VMware’s SVGA device instead of NVIDIA vGPU.
Fix#
Make NVIDIA vGPU the primary display adapter.
Use Windows screen resolution control panel to make the second display, identified as “2” and corresponding to NVIDIA vGPU, to be the active display and select the Show desktop only on 2 option. Click Apply to accept the configuration.
You may need to click on the Detect button for Windows to recognize the display connected to NVIDIA vGPU.
Note
If the Omnissa Horizon agent is installed in the VM, the NVIDIA GPU is automatically selected in preference to the SVGA device.
Status#
Open