Unable to install Windows 10 Guest Driver

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I’m having issues installing Guest drivers for my Windows 10 VM.

Configuration:

  • Server with ESXi 8.0
  • Installed both Host drivers for vGPU and GPU Management. Verified functionality with nvidia-smi and nvidia-smi vgpu commands in ESXi terminal.
  • I have also set one of the GPUs to passthrough and assigned it to my VM in the VM settings
  • In the same zip folder that I downloaded with the Host Drivers is the Guest Drivers directory that contained my Linux and Windows drivers. I copied the windows drivers 552.74_grid_win10_win11_server2022_dch_64bit_international.exe over to my Windows VM but after running the installer, i get the error that says “This NVIDIA Graphics Driver is not compatible with your devcice”.

Any ideas why?

Previously, if I just did a straight GPU passthrough and installed Nvidia Drivers for that specific card to the VM, it’ll detect the GPU and i can run Nvidia-Smi. Those drivers alone obviously dont work for the vgpu, so i uninstalled those and then installed these Guest drivers.
nvidia_installer

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Hi, not sure what you are going to achieve. You mentioned that you installed host driver but on the other hand you want to Passthrough the VM which doesn’t require the host driver at all. The driver is the right one for vGPU but you didn’t mention which GPU you are using so how should we know if the GPU given can work with the vGPU driver?
Please provide a few more details

regards
Simon