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VMware ESXi V7.0U3d Nvidia Driver Linux 510 wont load

Mar 04, 2024

VMware ESXi V7.0U3d HiveOS Virtual Machine Nvidia Driver for Linux 510 won’t load

Error drm:nv_drm_load [Nvidia-drm] failed to allocate nvkmskapdevice

Error nv_drm_probe_devices [Nvidia-drm] failed to register device


VMware ESXi-7.0U3d-19482537-standard

HP ProLiant DL380 Gen 9 - running the latest firmware


VIRTUAL MACHINE SETTINGS


Nvidia Graphics Cards using PCI Passthrough

Reserve all guest memory (All Locked) - Enabled

Expose IOMMU to the guest OS - Disabled

Enable virtualized CPU performance counters - Disabled

Expose hardware-assisted virtualization to the guest OS - Disabled

Boot - EFI

UEFI Secure Boot - Disabled

hypervisor.cpuid.v0 - FALSE

pciPassthru.use64bitMMIO - TRUE

pciPassthru.64bitMMIOSizeGB - 64


Works fine with Nvidia Driver 470.82.0 or bypassing ESXi and booting directly from HiveOS USB


Testing running the latest HiveOS with Kernel 5.10.0-hiveos #110 & Nvidia Driver 510.60.02 & 515.43.04