From 3110f37d80b3078c883b81c5c263908f986d5910 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: PolloLoco Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2023 12:03:25 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] 14.x and 15.x driver versions are EOL. Add note about possible issue with display dummy plugs --- README.md | 21 ++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 39a3e26..e9f3435 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ [!["Buy Me A Coffee"](https://www.buymeacoffee.com/assets/img/custom_images/orange_img.png)](https://www.buymeacoffee.com/polloloco) -This document serves as a guide to install NVIDIA vGPU host drivers on the latest Proxmox VE version, at time of writing this its pve 8.0. +This document serves as a guide to install NVIDIA vGPU host drivers on the latest Proxmox VE version, at time of writing this its pve 8.1. You can follow this guide if you have a vGPU supported card from [this list](https://docs.nvidia.com/grid/gpus-supported-by-vgpu.html), or if you are using a consumer GPU from the GeForce series or a non-vGPU qualified Quadro GPU. There are several sections with a title similar to "Have a vGPU supported GPU? Read here" in this document, make sure to read those very carefully as this is where the instructions differ for a vGPU qualified card and a consumer card. @@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ If you have GPUs from the Ampere and Ada Lovelace generation, you are out of luc This guide and all my tests were done on a RTX 2080 Ti which is based on the Turing architechture. ## Important notes before starting -- This tutorial assumes you are using a clean install of Proxmox VE 8.0. -- If you are using Proxmox VE 8.0, you **MUST** use 16.x drivers. Older versions only work with pve 7 +- This tutorial assumes you are using a clean install of Proxmox VE 8.1. +- If you are using Proxmox VE 8.1, you **MUST** use 16.x drivers. Older versions only work with pve 7 - If you tried GPU-passthrough before, you absolutely **MUST** revert all of the steps you did to set that up. - If you only have one GPU in your system with no iGPU, your local monitor will **NOT** give you any output anymore after the system boots up. Use SSH or a serial connection if you want terminal access to your machine. - Most of the steps can be applied to other linux distributions, however I'm only covering Proxmox VE here. @@ -256,14 +256,16 @@ Depending on your mainboard and cpu, the output will be different, in my output This repo contains patches that allow you to use vGPU on not-qualified-vGPU cards (consumer GPUs). Those patches are binary patches, which means that each patch works **ONLY** for a specific driver version. I've created patches for the following driver versions: -- 16.2 (535.129.03) - Use this if you are on pve 8.0 (kernel 6.2, 6.5 should work too) +- 16.2 (535.129.03) - Use this if you are on pve 8.1 (kernel 6.2, 6.5 should work too) - 16.1 (535.104.06) - 16.0 (535.54.06) -- 15.1 (525.85.07) -- 15.0 (525.60.12) -- 14.4 (510.108.03) -- 14.3 (510.108.03) -- 14.2 (510.85.03) + +> ### The following versions are EOL, don't use them unless you have a very specific reason! +> - 15.1 (525.85.07) +> - 15.0 (525.60.12) +> - 14.4 (510.108.03) +> - 14.3 (510.108.03) +> - 14.2 (510.85.03) You can choose which of those you want to use, but generally its recommended to use the latest, most up-to-date version (16.2 in this case). @@ -601,6 +603,7 @@ Most problems can be solved by reading the instructions very carefully. For some - Make sure that you don't have unlock disabled if you have a consumer gpu ([more information](#have-a-vgpu-supported-card-read-here)) - vGPU doesn't work on my RTX 3080! What to do? - [Learn to read](#your-rtx-30xx-or-40xx-will-not-work-at-this-point-in-time) +- Make sure that you don't have any dummy plugs connected to the GPU ports, they may cause problems as [reported by a user from the vgpu discord](https://discord.com/channels/829786927829745685/1182258311014400040/1187339682082721822) ## Support