I’m just here to throw some wood on the fire.
Guess what? The beta release of 515.43.04 open source driver works with Ampere cards, but the proprietary driver shipped in the same installer does not. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
I am in the same position as others in the thread trying to use a 3090 in ESXi 7.0U3c with DirectPath I/O (PCIe passthrough). I confirm that the 470.82 drivers were the last proprietary drivers to work until 515.43.04/kernel-open I also want to reiterate that the properietary kernel driver 515.43/04/kernel still fails with the same errors as discussed in this thread.
Per the instructions here, install with: ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-515.43.04.run -m=kernel-open and make sure to include options nvidia NVreg_OpenRmEnableUnsupportedGpus=1 in /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia
I lowkey suspect this whole “bug” is making it difficult to do this by design, and whatever chicanery NVidia is up to in the proprietary driver isn’t gonna fly on open source. Hooray for open source!
$ dmesg | grep vmware
[ 0.000000] vmware: TSC freq read from hypervisor : 2992.968 MHz
[ 0.000000] vmware: Host bus clock speed read from hypervisor : 66000000 Hz
[ 0.000000] vmware: using clock offset of 18001067827 ns
[ 5.414545] systemd[1]: Detected virtualization vmware.$ nvidia-smi
Thu May 19 16:38:19 2022
±----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 515.43.04 Driver Version: 515.43.04 CUDA Version: 11.7 |
|-------------------------------±---------------------±---------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA GeForce … Off | 00000000:03:00.0 Off | N/A |
| 30% 38C P8 35W / 350W | 5MiB / 24576MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
±------------------------------±---------------------±---------------------+±----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=============================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 2942 G /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 4MiB |
±----------------------------------------------------------------------------+