NVIDIA GRID driver installation on XenServer host
See http://www.citrix.com/go/vGPU for complete documentation for this feature.
The NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager runs in XenServer’s dom0. It is provided as an RPM file, which must be copied to XenServer’s dom0 and then installed.
Steps for installing the NVIDIA GRID GPU driver for XenServer 6.2 hypervisor environment:
1. Download the NVIDIA GRID vGPU Pack and extract the contents; available on http://www.nvidia.com/vGPU
2. Upload the NVIDIA driver to /tmp directory on the XenServer host using tool such as WinSCP
3. Place the XenServer host into maintenance mode.
4. Log in as root to the XenServer console through SSH
5. Reboot the XenServer.
[root@xs-6 tmp]# reboot
Broadcast message from root (pts/3) (Wed Dec 4 17:34:23 2013):
The system is going down for reboot NOW!
[root@xs-6 tmp]#
6. Once the host is back online, execute the following command to install the NVIDIA GRID GPU driver in the hypervisor:
[root@xs-6 ~]# rpm -ivh /tmp/ NVIDIA-vgx-xenserver-6.2-331.30.i386.rpm
Preparing… ########################################### [100%]
1:NVIDIA-vgx-xenserver ########################################### [100%]
7. Verify if the kernel module has loaded successfully, using following command:
[root@xs-6 ~]# lsmod | grep nvidia
nvidia 8524078 0
i2c_core 20294 1 nvidia
8. Optionally, restart the XenServer Toolstack using the command xe-toolstack-restart. For more info on the xapi toolstack, refer the edocs
[root@xs-6 ~]# xe-toolstack-restart
Executing xe-toolstack-restart
Stopping xapi: … [ OK ]
Stopping the v6 licensing daemon: [ OK ]
Stopping the memory ballooning daemon: [ OK ]
Stopping perfmon: [ OK ]
Stopping the xenopsd daemon: [ OK ]
Stopping XCP RRDD plugin xcp-rrdd-iostat: [ OK ]
Stopping XCP RRDD plugin xcp-rrdd-squeezed: [ OK ]
Stopping XCP RRDD plugin xcp-rrdd-xenpm: [ OK ]
Stopping the XCP RRDD daemon: [ OK ]
Stopping the XCP networking daemon: [ OK ]
Stopping the fork/exec daemon: [ OK ]
Stopping the multipath alerting daemon: [ OK ]
Starting the multipath alerting daemon: [ OK ]
Starting the fork/exec daemon: [ OK ]
Starting the XCP networking daemon: . [ OK ]
Starting the XCP RRDD daemon: [ OK ]
Starting XCP RRDD plugin xcp-rrdd-iostat: [ OK ]
Starting XCP RRDD plugin xcp-rrdd-squeezed: [ OK ]
Starting XCP RRDD plugin xcp-rrdd-xenpm: [ OK ]
Starting the xenopsd daemon: [ OK ]
Starting perfmon: [ OK ]
Starting the memory ballooning daemon: [ OK ]
Starting the v6 licensing daemon: [ OK ]
Starting xapi: OK [ OK ]
done.
[root@xs-6 ~]#
9. Verify the vGPU types are showing up after the driver installation, using the command vgpu-type-list
[root@xs-6 ~]# xe vgpu-type-list
uuid ( RO) : ad32125b-e5b6-2894-9d16-1809f032c5bb
vendor-name ( RO): NVIDIA Corporation
model-name ( RO): GRID K100
framebuffer-size ( RO): 268435456
uuid ( RO) : ee22b661-4aa0-e6e6-5876-e316c3ea09fe
vendor-name ( RO): NVIDIA Corporation
model-name ( RO): GRID K140Q
framebuffer-size ( RO): 1006632960
uuid ( RO) : 2025cc3e-c869-ef44-2757-a1994cc77c8e
vendor-name ( RO):
model-name ( RO): passthrough
framebuffer-size ( RO): 0
10. Exit XenServer maintenance mode.
