<![CDATA[Looking for a temporary test host with a nVIDIA GPU]]>Hi!

For XCP-ng 8.2, we want to be able to start XAPI without the gpumon blob (open source but built with a closed source toolkit from nVIDIA) from Citrix.

However, we don't have any hardware with nVIDIA GPU in our lab.

Would someone happen to have a spare host that we could use for testing. XCP-ng 8.1 with ssh access, ideally also iLO or equivalent in case our tests make it unbootable.

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/topic/3267/looking-for-a-temporary-test-host-with-a-nvidia-gpuRSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 07:21:12 GMTTue, 07 Jul 2020 09:50:25 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Looking for a temporary test host with a nVIDIA GPU on Thu, 01 Oct 2020 09:36:17 GMT]]>@stormi said in Looking for a temporary test host with a nVIDIA GPU:

For the tests we had a need for 1 week ago, it's now fine, however I'll probably update this thread once we have an ISO image that can be tested by users that have such hardware. Note: it's not about using the GPU itself, but simply about making sure that the hypervisor works well with the changes we made to replace the not-built-by-us gpumon tool whose absence would make XCP-ng 8.1 unbootable (as we sadly found out after the release) with a dummy one built by us.

Now is time for the tests I was talking about earlier. XCP-ng 8.2 beta is now available with our dummy gpumon and we need users who have nVIDIA GPUs to test it and give us feedback. There may be situations we have not tested where our dummy gpumon is not enough to make the XAPI happy, despite the fact that we don't support nVIDIA vGPUs (proprietary software from Citrix required for that feature).

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/31870https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/31870Thu, 01 Oct 2020 09:36:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking for a temporary test host with a nVIDIA GPU on Tue, 11 Aug 2020 09:49:12 GMT]]>I've got a NVIDIA card in my lab, but I probably need to install that driver you're talking about.
Are there any instructions on the wiki?

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107 [NVS 510] (rev a1)

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29930https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29930Tue, 11 Aug 2020 09:49:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking for a temporary test host with a nVIDIA GPU on Mon, 10 Aug 2020 15:45:19 GMT]]>do you have a link to which one you are referring to?

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29895https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29895Mon, 10 Aug 2020 15:45:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking for a temporary test host with a nVIDIA GPU on Tue, 21 Jul 2020 08:13:09 GMT]]>I was talking about the modded Nvidia driver, which is a solution working inside the VM.

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29334https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29334Tue, 21 Jul 2020 08:13:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking for a temporary test host with a nVIDIA GPU on Tue, 21 Jul 2020 08:12:13 GMT]]>Not sure which one you are referring to, I'm referring to this

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29333https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29333Tue, 21 Jul 2020 08:12:13 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking for a temporary test host with a nVIDIA GPU on Tue, 21 Jul 2020 07:55:08 GMT]]>Are you sure we are talking about the same patch?

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29332https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29332Tue, 21 Jul 2020 07:55:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking for a temporary test host with a nVIDIA GPU on Tue, 21 Jul 2020 04:23:48 GMT]]>@olivierlambert said in Looking for a temporary test host with a nVIDIA GPU:

I think you can find it on GitHub, I don't remember but I googled a bit about the error returned by the driver in the VM and found the patch

It's been reported the patch is working on Xen, but I couldn't get it to work on XCP

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29329https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29329Tue, 21 Jul 2020 04:23:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking for a temporary test host with a nVIDIA GPU on Fri, 17 Jul 2020 14:54:25 GMT]]>No worries. Happy to help!

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29260https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29260Fri, 17 Jul 2020 14:54:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking for a temporary test host with a nVIDIA GPU on Fri, 17 Jul 2020 14:56:14 GMT]]>For the tests we had a need for 1 week ago, it's now fine, however I'll probably update this thread once we have an ISO image that can be tested by users that have such hardware. Note: it's not about using the GPU itself, but simply about making sure that the hypervisor works well with the changes we made to replace the not-built-by-us gpumon tool whose absence would make XCP-ng 8.1 unbootable (as we sadly found out after the release) with a dummy one built by us.

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29259https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29259Fri, 17 Jul 2020 14:56:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking for a temporary test host with a nVIDIA GPU on Fri, 17 Jul 2020 14:43:50 GMT]]>Thanks. Did you still need a test bed for the next version of XO?

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29257https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29257Fri, 17 Jul 2020 14:43:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking for a temporary test host with a nVIDIA GPU on Fri, 17 Jul 2020 14:42:08 GMT]]>I think you can find it on GitHub, I don't remember but I googled a bit about the error returned by the driver in the VM and found the patch

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29255https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29255Fri, 17 Jul 2020 14:42:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking for a temporary test host with a nVIDIA GPU on Fri, 17 Jul 2020 14:39:58 GMT]]>So I hear. But don't know where to look @olivierlambert . That said I'm more than happy to contribute what I can to the XCP-NG project. DM me

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29253https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29253Fri, 17 Jul 2020 14:39:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking for a temporary test host with a nVIDIA GPU on Fri, 17 Jul 2020 14:38:33 GMT]]>You need modified Nvidia drivers in the VM to make it work 🙂

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29252https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29252Fri, 17 Jul 2020 14:38:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking for a temporary test host with a nVIDIA GPU on Fri, 17 Jul 2020 14:35:58 GMT]]>I have a test host right now with a GeForce GT730. Happy to use it as a test. I have been trying to get this darn NVIDIA to do passthrough so that I can run Folding@Home on a VM (using Docker I might add!!!), but the passthrough has not been successful so far, since it is not a commercial GPU.

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29250https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29250Fri, 17 Jul 2020 14:35:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking for a temporary test host with a nVIDIA GPU on Thu, 16 Jul 2020 13:25:53 GMT]]>@imtrobin said in Looking for a temporary test host with a nVIDIA GPU:

I have a M60 if you need me to setup. It supports passthrough.

We found a way to test what we wanted to test on one host, but we'll need to test on more hosts, either now or when we'll release the beta. The test would be: install the 8.2 beta and check that the host starts correctly, with the XAPI reachable from XO.

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29186https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29186Thu, 16 Jul 2020 13:25:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking for a temporary test host with a nVIDIA GPU on Thu, 16 Jul 2020 07:11:57 GMT]]>I have a M60 if you need me to setup. It supports passthrough.

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29180https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29180Thu, 16 Jul 2020 07:11:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking for a temporary test host with a nVIDIA GPU on Wed, 15 Jul 2020 08:29:09 GMT]]>Hi!

Can you tell me a bit more about those cards?

  • Do they support PCI passthrough without driver modifications?
  • Is vGPU working with it?
  • How old are they?
]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29173https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29173Wed, 15 Jul 2020 08:29:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking for a temporary test host with a nVIDIA GPU on Tue, 14 Jul 2020 23:18:20 GMT]]>Are you guys still interested?

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29169https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29169Tue, 14 Jul 2020 23:18:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking for a temporary test host with a nVIDIA GPU on Fri, 10 Jul 2020 18:14:53 GMT]]>@olivierlambert

If you guys cover the shipping, I can just donate one and not need it back. I'm pretty sure we're about to retire about 10 more. Where would I be shipping this? I can pay the upfront if you guys refund when it arrives. PM probably works better to work out details.

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29089https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29089Fri, 10 Jul 2020 18:14:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking for a temporary test host with a nVIDIA GPU on Fri, 10 Jul 2020 07:31:37 GMT]]>That would help yes 🙂

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29060https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29060Fri, 10 Jul 2020 07:31:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking for a temporary test host with a nVIDIA GPU on Fri, 10 Jul 2020 02:28:36 GMT]]>@stormi
Would a Nvidia Quadro K420 help?
https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/design-visualization/quadro-product-literature/13720_DS_NV_Quadro_K420_Aug25_US_NV_HR.pdf

I believe I've got an extra lying around.

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29054https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29054Fri, 10 Jul 2020 02:28:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking for a temporary test host with a nVIDIA GPU on Thu, 09 Jul 2020 08:15:42 GMT]]>Hi. Any nVIDIA GPU is OK for the tests we need to do.

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29005https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/29005Thu, 09 Jul 2020 08:15:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking for a temporary test host with a nVIDIA GPU on Thu, 09 Jul 2020 03:50:41 GMT]]>If someone can help me get a hold of said nvidia GPU that stormi wants, I can let xcpng team access the R730xd server I've been setting up all week and let him do whatever he needs on it. I've only got a bunch of nvidia 1070 gpus 😞

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/28995https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/28995Thu, 09 Jul 2020 03:50:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Looking for a temporary test host with a nVIDIA GPU on Tue, 07 Jul 2020 13:00:03 GMT]]>Note that in the context of this call for a temporary test host, a consumer-grade GPU is enough. But for our lab we have other requirements 🙂

]]>https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/28841https://xcp-ng.org/forum/post/28841Tue, 07 Jul 2020 13:00:03 GMT