My Setup is a headless HP Z800 running Vmware ESXi 5.5
Nvidia 1080 using DirectPath is assigned to an Ubuntu 16.04 64bits Guest OS
Ubuntu is running in level 3 (in sysv terms). NVIDIA 1080 will be used only with cudnn.
Nvidia drivers tested 375.26, 370.28.
nouveau is blacklisted:
~$sudo lsmod|grep nouveau
~$
Driver modules are loaded:
~$ sudo lsmod|grep nvidia
nvidia_drm 53248 0
nvidia_modeset 790528 1 nvidia_drm
nvidia 11943936 1 nvidia_modeset
drm_kms_helper 147456 2 vmwgfx,nvidia_drm
drm 360448 5 ttm,drm_kms_helper,vmwgfx,nvidia_drm
~$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 375.26 Thu Dec 8 18:36:43 PST 2016
GCC version: gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4)
~$ cat /proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/0000:03:00.0/information
Model: GeForce GTX 1080
IRQ: 63
GPU UUID: GPU-???-???-???-???-???
Video BIOS: ??.??.??.??.??
Bus Type: PCIe
DMA Size: 36 bits
DMA Mask: 0xfffffffff
Bus Location: 0000:03:00.0
Device Minor: 0
$ nvidia-smi -a
Unable to determine the device handle for GPU 0000:03:00.0: Unknown Error
and my logs are full of
NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x23:0x56:458)
[ 2179.616234] NVRM: rm_init_adapter failed for device bearing minor number 0
Thank you