nVidia Grid K2 - not showing as a mediated device

[Yardon]

Afternoon,

I've acquired a Dell R720 from work complete with a Grid K2 pci card.

I'm trying to set it up to use as a vGPU.

Grub is configured

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet intel_iommu=on i915.enable_gvt=1"

/etc/modules has these entries:

# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
# at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.
vfio
vfio_iommu_type1
vfio_pci
vfio_virqfd

# Modules required for Intel GVT
kvmgt
exngt
vfio-mdev

However when I try to Hardware->Add->PCI Device The K2 does not show as a Mediated Device. Any ideas on what I might have missed?

 

[DerDieDas]

Hi Yardon

might be a silly question, but do you have the correct drivers ("normal" NVIDIA drivers vs. vGPU/GRID drivers)?
We had a similar issue and we resolved it by installing the GRID drivers. Follow this doc: https://docs.nvidia.com/grid/10.0/grid-vgpu-user-guide/index.html#installing-vgpu-drivers-linux
And download the vGPU/GRID drivers via https://nvid.nvidia.com/dashboard/#/dashboard (GRID is not free, you can test it for 90 days).

After that, you should be able to see Mediated Device Yes and a list of different modes, see https://docs.nvidia.com/grid/10.0/grid-vgpu-user-guide/index.html#virtual-gpu-types-grid for a list (it will be something like nvidia-232, nvidia-219 etc.).