vGPU for Citrix XenServer 8.4 – only vGPU 17.4 available in Licensing Portal

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Hello NVIDIA team,

I am currently testing Citrix XenServer 8.4 (Citrix Hypervisor 8.4 Trial Edition) on my servers with NVIDIA RTX 6000 Pro Blackwell GPUs (96 GB).

I have successfully installed the hypervisor, but I cannot get the NVIDIA vGPU driver to load. After installing package NVIDIA-vGPU-xenserver-8-550.127.06.x86_64.rpm, the module does not load, and nvidia-smi fails with:

NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver.

When I log into the NVIDIA Licensing Portal (Application Hub) and filter for XenServer, I can only see downloads up to:

  • vGPU 17.4, with platform versions Citrix XenServer 8 / 8.2

Unfortunately, no vGPU 19.x packages are available for me in the portal.

My Questions:

  1. Is Citrix XenServer 8.4 only supported starting with vGPU Release 19.x?

  2. How can I get access to the vGPU 19.x packages for Citrix Hypervisor?

  3. Is there any way to test vGPU with my Blackwell GPUs on XenServer 8.4 without Enterprise contract upgrade?

Environment Details:

  • Hypervisor: Citrix XenServer 8.4 (Kernel 4.19.0+1)

  • GPU: NVIDIA RTX 6000 Pro Blackwell 96 GB

  • Package tested: NVIDIA-vGPU-xenserver-8-550.127.06.x86_64.rpm

  • Licensing Portal shows max: vGPU 17.4 for XenServer 8.2

Thank you for clarifying the support path for XenServer 8.4 + Blackwell GPUs and how I can access the required vGPU 19.x software.

Best regards,

Menkovic Adnan

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer

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Blackwell is only supported with vGPU 19. If you don’t have this version in your portal you may not have paid licenses and you would require another eval license that need to be approved from a NV employee

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