How to enable vgpu on Nvidia T4 after the nvidia drivers and vgpu binary from xenserver are installed?

eb-xcp

Re: nVidia Tesla P4 for vgpu and Plex encoding

Thanks for various guides I was able to install the driver on xcp-ng 8.3
I've used NVIDIA-vGPU-CitrixHypervisor-8.2-570.124.03.x86_64.iso
and vgpu-7.4.16-1.xs8.x86_64.rpm (from xen server)

The driver seems to work and T4 is detected

# nvidia-smi
Thu Apr  3 17:18:25 2025
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 570.124.03             Driver Version: 570.124.03     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  Tesla T4                       Off |   00000000:02:00.0 Off |                    0 |
| N/A   86C    P0             42W /   70W |      13MiB /  15360MiB |      0%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+

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

Unfortunately the card doesn't seem to be in vGPU mode:

# nvidia-smi vgpu -q
No supported devices in vGPU mode

I'm not sure if "Addressing Mode: Unknown Error" is anything to be concerned about, cannot find anything specific about that.

#nvidia-smi -q
==============NVSMI LOG==============

Timestamp                                 : Thu Apr  3 16:53:35 2025
Driver Version                            : 570.124.03
CUDA Version                              : Not Found

Attached GPUs                             : 1
GPU 00000000:02:00.0
    Product Name                          : Tesla T4
    Product Brand                         : NVIDIA
    Product Architecture                  : Turing
    Display Mode                          : Enabled
    Display Active                        : Disabled
    Persistence Mode                      : Disabled
    Addressing Mode                       : Unknown Error
...
    GPU Virtualization Mode
        Virtualization Mode               : None
        Host VGPU Mode                    : N/A
        vGPU Heterogeneous Mode           : N/A
...

I also see that vGPU / sr-iov (as least theoretically) supported:

# lspci -v -s 02:00.0
02:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU104GL [Tesla T4] (rev a1)
        Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation Device 12a2
        Physical Slot: 6
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 32
        Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Memory at 383fc0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        Memory at 383ff0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [68] #00 [0080]
        Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [c8] MSI-X: Enable- Count=6 Masked-
        Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
        Capabilities: [258] L1 PM Substates
        Capabilities: [128] Power Budgeting <?>
        Capabilities: [420] Advanced Error Reporting
        Capabilities: [600] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=024 <?>
        Capabilities: [900] #19
        Capabilities: [bb0] #15
        Capabilities: [bcc] Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV)
        Capabilities: [c14] Alternative Routing-ID Interpretation (ARI)
        Kernel driver in use: nvidia
        Kernel modules: nvidia

I do have SR-IOV enabled in BIOS, but having it disabled didn't seem to change anything.

Those with nvidia vGPUs, how have you ended up getting xcp-ng to enable the feature?

eb-xcp

Ok, found a solution.

Seems there is nothing I could do via cli or xo-ce to see the virtual GPUs, had to install xcp-ng center, specifically from:
https://github.com/xcp-ng/xenadmin/files/13800584/XCP-NG-Center-2023-Release.zip

Using the center, I was able to assign the GPU to the VM and everything worked well from then on.
Now to figure out licensing....