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Updates by Release#

Updates for each release in this release family of NVIDIA vGPU software may include new features, introduction of hardware and software support, and withdrawal of hardware and software support.

Updates in Release 20.2#

New Features in Release 20.2#

  • Security updates

    When these updates are disclosed, full details are provided in a new public NVIDIA GPU Display Driver security bulletin, which is listed on the NVIDIA Product Security page. To be notified of the availability of this and future bulletins, use the link on the NVIDIA Product Security page to subscribe to receive email notifications of security bulletin updates.

  • Support for multiple MIG-backed vGPUs on the same physical GPU on VCF 9.1 or a later release

  • Miscellaneous bug fixes

Hardware and Software Support Introduced in Release 20.2#

  • Newly supported graphics cards:

    • NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell Workstation Edition 72 GB on Red Hat Enterprise Linux with KVM 9.6 only

  • Newly supported hypervisor software:

    • XenServer 9

      The Virtual GPU Manager for this release is supplied only as a Supplemental Pack. No RPM package is supplied for this release.

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux with KVM 10.2

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux with KVM 9.8

  • Newly supported guest OS releases:

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 on VCF since VCF 9.1

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.8

Features Deprecated in Release 20.2#

The following table lists features that are deprecated in this release of NVIDIA vGPU software. Although the features remain available in this release, they might be withdrawn in a future release. In preparation for the possible removal of these features, use the preferred alternative listed in the table.

Deprecated Feature

Preferred Alternative

Additional Information

RPM package installation of the Virtual GPU Manager for XenServer 8.4

Supplemental Pack installation

Installing or Updating the Supplemental Pack for XenServer

Updates in Release 20.1#

New Features in Release 20.1#

  • Security updates

    When these updates are disclosed, full details are provided in a new public NVIDIA GPU Display Driver security bulletin, which is listed on the NVIDIA Product Security page. To be notified of the availability of this and future bulletins, use the link on the NVIDIA Product Security page to subscribe to receive email notifications of security bulletin updates.

  • Miscellaneous bug fixes as explained in Issues Resolved in Release 20.1

Hardware and Software Support Introduced in Release 20.1#

  • Newly supported hypervisor software:

    • Microsoft Azure Local 24H2 (12.2603.1002.500)

    • Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

  • Newly supported guest OS releases:

    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0

    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7

    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6

    • Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

  • Newly supported remoting solutions:

    • Omnissa Horizon 8 2603

Feature Support Withdrawn in Release 20.1#

  • Guest OS releases no longer supported:

    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2

Updates in Release 20.0#

New Features in Release 20.0#

  • Support for the fixed share scheduler for time-sliced vGPUs with different amounts of frame buffer on the same physical GPU

  • Support for the Wayland display server protocol

  • Support for the following features on VCF 9.1:

    • Multi-Instance GPU (MIG)-backed vGPUs for graphics on GPUs that support MIG

    • Time-sliced, MIG-backed vGPUs within a GPU instance on a MIG-enabled GPU

  • Miscellaneous bug fixes as explained in Issues Resolved in Release 20.0

Newly Supported Hardware and Software in Release 20.0#

  • Newly supported graphics cards:

    • NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition liquid cooled

    • NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell Server Edition

  • Newly supported hypervisor software:

    • VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1

  • Newly supported generic Linux with KVM platforms:

    • Verge.io VergeOS

  • Newly supported guest OS releases:

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 and 10.0 on VCF since VCF 9.1

Feature Support Withdrawn in Release 20.0#

  • Disabling strict round robin policy is no longer supported.

  • The following graphics cards are no longer supported:

    • Tesla M10

    • Tesla V100 SXM2

    • Tesla V100 SXM2 32GB

    • Tesla V100 PCIe

    • Tesla V100 PCIe 32GB

    • Tesla V100S PCIe 32GB

    • Tesla V100 FHHL

    • Quadro RTX 6000

    • Quadro RTX 6000 passive

    • Quadro RTX 8000

    • Quadro RTX 8000 passive