Today I encountered the problem that the NVDIA driver couldn’t communicate with the M60 Tesla card in an ESX 6.5 environment.
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[root@esx001:~] nvidia-smi NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running. |
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[root@esx001:~] dmesg | grep NVIDIA 2017-07-25T14:08:11.328Z cpu29:70203)VisorFSTar: 2167: NVIDIA_V.v00 (8002303909659976911) as NVIDIA_V.v00 for 70077651 bytes 2017-07-25T14:08:11.497Z cpu28:70209)NVIDIA: Unloading nvidia module during vib install/upgrade. 2017-07-25T14:08:12.233Z cpu5:70218)ALERT: NVIDIA: module load failed during VIB install/upgrade. 2017-07-25T14:08:12.237Z cpu28:70219)NVIDIA: Starting vGPU Services. 2017-07-25T14:08:12.248Z cpu29:70222)NVIDIA: Starting Xorg during vib install/upgrade. |
The host driver was installed successfully:
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[root@esx001:~] esxcli software vib list | grep NVIDIA NVIDIA-VMware_ESXi_6.5_Host_Driver 367.106-1OEM.650.0.0.4598673 NVIDIA VMwareAccepted 2017-07-25 |
The M60 card was recognized within the ESX host
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[root@esx001:~] lspci | grep Display 0000:86:00.0 Display controller: NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIATesla M60 [vmgfx0] 0000:87:00.0 Display controller: NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIATesla M60 [vmgfx1] |
Fix
You need to disable the “DirectPath I/O” on the host. Navigate to Hardware –> PCI Devices . Make sure the graphic card is not selected as passtrough device. Thanks to Simon Schaber from NVIDIA who gave me the final clue.
thanks for this. I’ve spent nearly 8 hours on this and you have fixed my issue.
Glad I could help 🙂
Thank you very much, after spending 5 hours and then I found this you saved my day.
I know this post was from awhile ago, but it fixed my issue – Thank you!