Cuda install failure on Ubuntu VM

[fantonio]

On a Ubuntu 18.04 VM running under Windows 11, I attempted install of CUDA toolkit 11.6
Installation failed. It says driver did not install, but doesn’t say why.
What do I do now?

antonio@VM2:~$ sudo sh cuda_11.6.2_510.47.03_linux.run
[sudo] password for antonio:
Installation failed. See log at /var/log/cuda-installer.log for details.

antonio@VM2:~$ cat /var/log/cuda-installer.log
[INFO]: Driver not installed.
[INFO]: Checking compiler version…
[INFO]: gcc location: /usr/bin/gcc

[INFO]: gcc version: gcc version 7.5.0 (Ubuntu 7.5.0-3ubuntu1~18.04)

[INFO]: Initializing menu
[INFO]: Setup complete
[INFO]: Components to install:
[INFO]: Driver
[INFO]: 510.47.03
[INFO]: Executing NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-510.47.03.run --ui=none --no-questions --a
ccept-license --disable-nouveau --no-cc-version-check --install-libglvnd 2>&1
[INFO]: Finished with code: 256
[ERROR]: Install of driver component failed.
[ERROR]: Install of 510.47.03 failed, quitting
antonio@VM2:~$
antonio@VM2:~$

[rs277]

What GPU are you using?

[fantonio]

I’m using RTX A4000 GPU.

[rs277]

Just checking it wasn’t too old for the toolkit, (it’s not).

[fantonio]

I know it is not a hardware issue, because I have CUDA installed on the Windows 11 OS, where it works just fine, working of course with the very same one-and-only GPU.

It is the Ubuntu VM running under windows where CUDA will not install, so it has to be something associated with the VM.

Is there perhaps something I need to do differently when installing in a VM? I have not found anything in the NVDIA docs that mentions anything different for a VM.

Would like to hear whether others have installed on a VM.

[fantonio]

I have resolved this issue!

It turns out that Microsoft hyper-v on windows 11 does not yet support GPU use by a cuda program.

However, WSL (windows subsystem for Linux) does. So I moved from a hyper-v VM to WSL, and now I’m able to build Linux cuda executables, and run them, on my windows machine.