# Vulkan support on enterprise hardware

**URL:** <https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/vulkan-support-on-enterprise-hardware/120652>\
**Category:** Vulkan\
**Created:** [April 22, 2020, 11:52am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/vulkan-support-on-enterprise-hardware/120652 "2020-04-22T11:52:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![vnazarenko](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/nvidia/user_avatar/forums.developer.nvidia.com/vnazarenko/32/17168_2.png) [@vnazarenko](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/vnazarenko)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2020, 11:52am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/vulkan-support-on-enterprise-hardware/120652/1 "2020-04-22T11:52:31Z")

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Hi,  
we use Vulkan API to do some compute and rasterization tasks in headless mode, without ever presenting to screen, and we really admire the quality of Vulkan implementation on GTX/RTX/Quadro cards, but were not able to run Vulkan on Tesla cards (T4, M60, both Windows and Linux). As I see, the support is claimed in the docs here [Virtual GPU Software User Guide :: NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software Documentation](https://docs.nvidia.com/grid/latest/grid-vgpu-user-guide/index.html#api-support-vgpu) and here [Version 410.72(Linux)/411.82(Windows) :: NVIDIA Tesla Documentation](https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/tesla/tesla-release-notes-410-72/index.html#hardware-software-support), but when initializing the vulkan instance, we get vk\_error\_initialization\_failed. Vulkan Caps Viewer also reports that it cannot enumerate devices. So,

1. Is it possible to run Vulkan rendering on M60/T4/V100 cards?
2. Is it possible to run Vulkan in virtual environment, specifically on Amazon EC2 instances?
3. Do you have any manuals on this topic/plans to support?

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**Author:** ![tame\_tiger](https://developer.download.nvidia.com/images/forums/profile-default-devtalk-84.png) [@tame\_tiger](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/u/tame_tiger)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2025, 2:14pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/vulkan-support-on-enterprise-hardware/120652/2 "2025-02-20T14:14:57Z")

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For anyone finding this in the future, I was able to solve a `VK_ERROR_INITIALIZATION_FAILED` (code -3) error by installing `libnvidia-gl-570` in the container using `nvidia/cuda:12.8.0-base-ubuntu24.04` as base .