I get the same error. Everything is set as described in the kb.
NVIDIA-VMware_ESXi_6.5_Host_Driver 384.111-1OEM.650.0.0.4598673 NVIDIA VMwareAccepted 2018-02-15
±----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 384.111 Driver Version: 384.111 |
|-------------------------------±---------------------±---------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 Tesla P40 On | 00000000:3B:00.0 Off | 0 |
| N/A 26C P8 19W / 250W | 53MiB / 23039MiB | 0% Default |
±------------------------------±---------------------±---------------------+
±----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: GPU Memory |
| GPU PID Type Process name Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| No running processes found |
±----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
VMware setting is set to "Direkt freigegeben" (the second checkbox)
still the issue:
Plug-In ‘/usr/lib64/vmware/plugin/libnvidia-vgx.so’ konnte nicht für vGPU ‘grid_p40-4q’ initialisiert werden.