Proxmox vGPU configuration troubleshooting

cgirlamo

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Oct 14, 2025
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Hello,

I have been trying to get vGPU set up on a single proxmox node with 3 Ada RTX 6000 GPU's. I have enabled IOMMU and SR-IOV, installed the host driver from the Nvidia enterprise portal, and am using proxmox v 9.1.7, kernel 6.17.13-2-pve, and have tried unsuccessfully to use nvidia driver versions 20.0, 19.4, and 18.4.

After installing the drivers and rebooting, nvidia-smi shows my 3 GPUs, and running nvidia-smi vgpu -s shows the different possible partitions for each GPU. However, when I check /sys/class/mdev, that directory is empty, and I cannot see the partitions in the web GUI. I have also set the display mode to physical_display_disabled and reloaded the necessary modules for vgpu.

any help would be appreciated,

Chris

Code:
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 580.126.08             Driver Version: 580.126.08     CUDA Version: N/A      |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                        |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Gene...    On  |   00000000:5A:00.0 Off |                    0 |
| 30%   35C    P8             27W /  300W |       0MiB /  46068MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
|   1  NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Gene...    On  |   00000000:63:00.0 Off |                    0 |
| 30%   34C    P8             22W /  300W |       0MiB /  46068MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
|   2  NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Gene...    On  |   00000000:D6:00.0 Off |                    0 |
| 30%   34C    P8             33W /  300W |       0MiB /  46068MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI              PID   Type   Process name                        GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|  No running processes found                                                             |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

 nvidia-smi vgpu -s
GPU 00000000:5A:00.0
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-1B
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-2B
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-1Q
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-2Q
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-3Q
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-4Q
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-6Q
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-8Q
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-12Q
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-16Q
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-24Q
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-48Q
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-1A
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-2A
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-3A
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-4A
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-6A
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-8A
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-12A
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-16A
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-24A
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-48A
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-3B

GPU 00000000:63:00.0
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-1B
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-2B
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-1Q
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-2Q
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-3Q
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-4Q
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-6Q
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-8Q
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-12Q
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-16Q
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-24Q
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-48Q
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-1A
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-2A
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-3A
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-4A
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-6A
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-8A
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-12A
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-16A
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-24A
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-48A
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-3B

GPU 00000000:D6:00.0
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-1B
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-2B
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-1Q
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-2Q
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-3Q
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-4Q
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-6Q
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-8Q
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-12Q
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-16Q
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-24Q
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-48Q
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-1A
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-2A
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-3A
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-4A
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-6A
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-8A
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-12A
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-16A
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-24A
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-48A
    NVIDIA RTX6000-Ada-3B