Install vGPU Nvidia Driver Ubuntu 18.04 - NVIDIA QUADRO RTX 6000

Hi all,

I want to share our GPU (NVIDIA QUADRO RTX 6000) between 3 Ubuntu 18.04 (without GUI). So, I installed the license server and also vGPU manager (11.2) in ESXi with vSphere 7 Enterprise Plus license. Then I allocated NVIDIA GRID vGPU grid_rtx6000-8c to the VM and tried to install Nvidia driver for Linux (450.89) that was not created yet for QUADRO RTX 6000, so I used 450.80.02.
When I try to install this driver (DKMS=yes), there is the following error:

ERROR: Unable to load the ‘nvidia-drm’ kernel module.

cat /var/log/nvidia-installer.log:

nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log'
creation time: Tue Dec  8 16:31:51 2020
installer version: 450.80.02

PATH: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/snap/bin

nvidia-installer command line:
    ./nvidia-installer

Unable to load: nvidia-installer ncurses v6 user interface

Using: nvidia-installer ncurses user interface
-> Detected 8 CPUs online; setting concurrency level to 8.
-> Installing NVIDIA driver version 450.80.02.
-> There appears to already be a driver installed on your system (version: 450.66).  As part of installing this driver (version: 450.80.02), the existing driver will be uninstalled.  Are you sure you want to continue? (Answer: Continue installation)
-> Would you like to register the kernel module sources with DKMS? This will allow DKMS to automatically build a new module, if you install a different kernel later. (Answer: Yes)
-> Install NVIDIA's 32-bit compatibility libraries? (Answer: Yes)
-> Uninstalling the previous installation with /usr/bin/nvidia-uninstall.
Looking for install checker script at ./libglvnd_install_checker/check-libglvnd-install.sh
   executing: '/bin/sh ./libglvnd_install_checker/check-libglvnd-install.sh'...
   Found libglvnd libraries: libEGL.so.1 libGLX.so.0 libGL.so.1
   Found non-libglvnd libraries:
   Missing libraries: libGLESv2.so.2 libGLESv1_CM.so.1 libOpenGL.so.0
   libglvnd appears to be installed.
Will not install libglvnd libraries.
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libOpenGL.so.0"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libOpenGL.so"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libGLESv1_CM.so.1.2.0"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libGLESv1_CM.so.1"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libGLESv1_CM.so"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libGLESv2.so.2.1.0"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libGLESv2.so.2"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libGLESv2.so"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libGLdispatch.so.0"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libGLX.so.0"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libGLX.so"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libGL.so.1.7.0"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libGL.so.1"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libGL.so"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libEGL.so.1.1.0"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libEGL.so.1"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libEGL.so"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "./32/libOpenGL.so.0"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libOpenGL.so"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "./32/libGLdispatch.so.0"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "./32/libGLESv2.so.2.1.0"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libGLESv2.so.2"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libGLESv2.so"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "./32/libGLESv1_CM.so.1.2.0"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libGLESv1_CM.so.1"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libGLESv1_CM.so"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "./32/libGL.so.1.7.0"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libGL.so.1"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libGL.so"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "./32/libGLX.so.0"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libGLX.so"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "./32/libEGL.so.1.1.0"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libEGL.so.1"
-> Skipping GLVND file: "libEGL.so"
WARNING: Unable to determine the path to install the libglvnd EGL vendor library config files. Check that you have pkg-config and the libglvnd development libraries installed, or specify a path with --glvnd-egl-config-path.
Will install libEGL vendor library config file to /usr/share/glvnd/egl_vendor.d
-> Searching for conflicting files:
-> done.
-> Installing 'NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86_64' (450.80.02):
   executing: '/sbin/ldconfig'...
-> done.
-> Driver file installation is complete.
-> Installing DKMS kernel module:
-> done.
ERROR: Unable to load the 'nvidia-drm' kernel module.
ERROR: Installation has failed.  Please see the file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' for details.  You may find suggestions on fixing installation problems in the README available on the Linux driver download page at www.nvidia.com.

lspci | grep -i nvidia:

02:02.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1e30 (rev a1)

Thank you in advance.

Ashkan Hamedi

I’ve found the Nvidia driver for Linux (450.89) and installed the driver successfully. Now I can use my 3 VMs with GPU at the same time and they work well, but there isn’t any client ID in the License server:

Is it ok?