Nvidia-smi No devices were found

Hi,

I am using ESXi 6.7 GPU passthrough for VM. After installing nvidia driver, it can’t work well. Here has some information.

P.S. I have add hypervisor.cpuid.v0=FALSE in vmx

Thanks for help!

~# dmesg | grep NVRM | more
[ 2.591028] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 510.47.03 Mon Jan 24 22:58:54 UTC 2022
[ 9.009356] NVRM: GPU 0000:03:00.0: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x25:0x65:1451)
[ 9.009416] NVRM: GPU 0000:03:00.0: rm_init_adapter failed, device minor number 0

dmesg | grep nvidia

[ 2.409747] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[ 2.409755] nvidia: module license ‘NVIDIA’ taints kernel.
[ 2.514825] nvidia: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
[ 2.529768] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 235
[ 2.540968] nvidia 0000:03:00.0: enabling device (0000 → 0003)
[ 2.542716] nvidia 0000:03:00.0: vgaarb: changed VGA decodes: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=none
[ 2.595914] nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for UNIX platforms 510.47.03 Mon Jan 24 22:51:43 UTC 2022
[ 2.597082] [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000300] Loading driver
[ 2.597083] [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 20160202 for 0000:03:00.0 on minor 1
[ 2.622782] nvidia_uvm: module uses symbols from proprietary module nvidia, inheriting taint.
[ 2.627445] nvidia-uvm: Loaded the UVM driver, major device number 511.
nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (234.7 KB)

We seem to have the same issue…whatever it may be: Nvidia-smi “No devices were found” - VMWare ESXI Ubuntu Server 20.04.03 with RTX3070 - CUDA / CUDA Setup and Installation - NVIDIA Developer Forums