GTX 1050 Mobile is not found with nvidia-smi

Graphics / Linux Linux
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Hi :)
I have an Ubuntu 20.04 vm hosted on Proxmox with GPU passthrough, gpu driver (nvidia-driver-525) is installed using ubuntu wizard, as in attached snapshots.

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nvidia-smi returns “No devices were found”

and dmesg -w showing below error

[ 130.206007] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: Failed to copy vbios to system memory.
[ 130.206189] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x30:0xffff:978)
[ 130.206492] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: rm_init_adapter failed, device minor number 0
[ 274.368633] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: Failed to copy vbios to system memory.
[ 274.368930] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x30:0xffff:978)
[ 274.369177] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: rm_init_adapter failed, device minor number 0
[ 274.504630] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: Failed to copy vbios to system memory.
[ 274.504817] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x30:0xffff:978)
[ 274.505136] NVRM: GPU 0000:01:00.0: rm_init_adapter failed, device minor number 0

lspci -v shows that the devices is listed and using correct driver as below

01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile] (rev a1)
Physical Slot: 0
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at fb000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
I/O ports at 5000 [size=128]
Expansion ROM at fc000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
Capabilities:
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia

below is nvidia-bug-report log.
nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (1.2 MB)

please your support.

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It’s a mobile gpu, you’ll likely have to pass through the vbios as a file.

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@generix thanks for your replay, I already did this from host side (proxmox) through vm config file, I have downloaded vbios from below links but no luck still getting the same error.

do you advice me to do something else?

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I can’t really help you with that, but here’s a recent thread from a user that managed to do that:
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/trying-to-get-discrete-laptop-gpu-running-in-qemu-kvm-windows/221706

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Hi @generix,
Do you have any idea from where I could get the rom file for this gpu, in may laptop it was loaded with windows10 and the drivers already come on the disk.

br

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It’s described in the linked thread.