Grid K1 and VMware

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I am trying to get an NVidia Grid K1 card to run in VMware and have yet been able to get the video card to work correctly. I have followed the steps for several of the white papers and still cannot get the video card to function. One of the white papers mentioned a "MontereyEnable.exe" which we don’t have. My hardware:

Dell PowerEdge R720
NVidia Grid K1
2 x Intel Xeon E5-2665
196gb Ram
16TB SSD storage array
8 TB secondary backup storage array
Esxi 5.5
Horizon View 6.0

What I have tried:

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vmware-horizon-view-graphics-acceleration-deployment.pdf

The problem I am having is the OS (Windows 7) loads up just fine with the VMware software driver and I can get windows to recognize the Grid K1 card, however, windows won’t switch from the software driver to the Grid K1. If I disable the software driver, windows reboots and comes up with the X pointer and a black screen. I have read to modify the MontereyEnable.exe file, however the driver that I am using doesn’t install that file. I have been working this issue for some time now, and I am extremely frustrated. Can anyone help with this matter? Anyone actually get this card to work?

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Got it working. The view agent that we were using was "old". I added view agent 6.0 on the VM and now it works perfectly!

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Excellent news. Thanks for letting everyone know you found the solution, someone else may encounter the exact same issue.

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I’m having a similar issue. I cannot get Windows to switch from the software driver to the GRID driver. I try and change the main display to the NVIDIA VGX but Windows won’t let me do it. Any advice?