VMWare Cloud Director VM on Debian 12.9 + Nvidia GPU RTX Quadro 8000 issue

Hi there,

I really looked 10-15 similar threads, but still didn’t get how to fix the issue.

I tried installing from package manager and from standalone .run file and from different sources, but it seems I always come to this error:

root@debian-1:~# dmesg | grep -i nvidia
[    5.737875] audit: type=1400 audit(1741798182.079:5): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined" name="nvidia_modprobe" pid=343 comm="apparmor_parser"
[    5.737889] audit: type=1400 audit(1741798182.079:6): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined" name="nvidia_modprobe//kmod" pid=343 comm="apparmor_parser"
[    6.398695] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[    6.440889] nvidia: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
[    7.343703] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 244
[    7.343738] NVRM: This PCI I/O region assigned to your NVIDIA device is invalid:
[    7.361080] NVRM: This PCI I/O region assigned to your NVIDIA device is invalid:
[    7.361093] NVRM: This PCI I/O region assigned to your NVIDIA device is invalid:
[    7.361096] NVRM: This PCI I/O region assigned to your NVIDIA device is invalid:
[    7.361101] NVRM: This PCI I/O region assigned to your NVIDIA device is invalid:
[    7.404695] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX Open Kernel Module for x86_64  570.124.04  Release Build  (dvs-builder@U22-I3-AF04-14-5)  Tue Feb 25 03:49:44 UTC 2025
[    7.466908] nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA UNIX Open Kernel Mode Setting Driver for x86_64  570.124.04  Release Build  (dvs-builder@U22-I3-AF04-14-5)  Tue Feb 25 03:39:40 UTC 2025
[    7.524827] [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00001300] Loading driver
[    7.708278] nvidia 0000:13:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware nvidia/570.124.04/gsp_tu10x.bin
[    8.848498] caller osMapPciMemoryKernelOld+0x3a/0xb0 [nvidia] mapping multiple BARs
[    8.870934] [drm:nv_drm_load [nvidia_drm]] *ERROR* [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00001300] Failed to allocate NvKmsKapiDevice
[    8.872222] [drm:nv_drm_register_drm_device [nvidia_drm]] *ERROR* [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00001300] Failed to register device
[   12.198417] nvidia 0000:13:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware nvidia/570.124.04/gsp_tu10x.bin
[   12.664908] nvidia 0000:13:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware nvidia/570.124.04/gsp_tu10x.bin
[   13.159617] nvidia 0000:13:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware nvidia/570.124.04/gsp_tu10x.bin
[   13.513641] nvidia 0000:13:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware nvidia/570.124.04/gsp_tu10x.bin
[  106.674898] nvidia 0000:13:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware nvidia/570.124.04/gsp_tu10x.bin
[  107.030856] nvidia-uvm: Loaded the UVM driver, major device number 240.
[  355.364726] nvidia 0000:13:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware nvidia/570.124.04/gsp_tu10x.bin
[  356.093195] nvidia 0000:13:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware nvidia/570.124.04/gsp_tu10x.bin
[  360.385410] nvidia 0000:13:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware nvidia/570.124.04/gsp_tu10x.bin
[  364.765996] nvidia 0000:13:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware nvidia/570.124.04/gsp_tu10x.bin
[  365.494800] nvidia 0000:13:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware nvidia/570.124.04/gsp_tu10x.bin
[  366.361615] nvidia 0000:13:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware nvidia/570.124.04/gsp_tu10x.bin
[  367.118747] nvidia 0000:13:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware nvidia/570.124.04/gsp_tu10x.bin
[  367.776837] nvidia 0000:13:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware nvidia/570.124.04/gsp_tu10x.bin
[  368.376118] nvidia 0000:13:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware nvidia/570.124.04/gsp_tu10x.bin
[  368.776447] nvidia 0000:13:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware nvidia/570.124.04/gsp_tu10x.bin

There are some NVRM notes, which I tried to fix with grub command line arguments, but the didnt change anything.

Also there is Failed to allocate NvKmsKapiDevice, which also brought me to some hints, but I didn’t manage to implement them or they didn’t work.

I have blacklisted nouveaue, tried blacklisting vmwgfx

Full log here
nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (112.8 KB)

VMware cloud director didn’t have a template image for Debian with passthrough, so in the end with the tech support help I switched to Ubuntu template for GPU VMs with passthrough support.

nvidia-smi command started showing the GPU

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